www.vice.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:58 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 39 ms 11%
- TCP connect 30 ms 9%
- Server wait 276 ms 80%
Measured on the connection that fetched the HTML. Every other request on the page waits for the end of this bar before it can start.
How this page compares
Every report published here is in this comparison, so it is a reference population of pages tested from one server - not a benchmark of the whole web.
What these numbers mean
- The first byte arrived in 345 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 841.5 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 91% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 85% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
Fix first: Render-blocking resources - Add defer or async to scripts that do not change the first paint, inline the critical CSS, and load the rest with media="print" plus an onload swap.
Read on one shared server, not a visitor's phone: use it to compare pages against each other, not as a promise about every connection. We fix what these tests find.
The headless browser did not capture this page when the test ran, so only the server measurements are shown.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 841.5 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact10 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (6 script(s), 4 stylesheet(s)). The page cannot paint until each one arrives.
Fix: Add defer or async to scripts that do not change the first paint, inline the critical CSS, and load the rest with media="print" plus an onload swap.
Cache static assets
medium impact1 asset(s) answer without a Cache-Control max-age, so browsers revalidate them on every visit.
Fix: Version filenames on change and serve them with a long max-age plus immutable. That is what makes a returning visitor fast.
Third-party weight
medium impact9 third-party host(s) serve 716.2 KB of this page. Each one is another DNS lookup, TLS handshake and point of failure you do not control.
Fix: Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: chargebee.js (278.2 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact1 redirect hop(s) before the page load started, each one a full round trip before the first byte.
Fix: Link to the canonical URL (and make sure http, the apex domain and www all point at it) so no visitor pays a redirect first.
Waterfall
Slowest requests
Each bar is one request's own response time, scaled to the slowest. Assets were fetched in parallel, so the bars overlap in real time rather than stacking. first party third party
| Request | Type | Status | Time | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://embeds.beehiiv.com/attribution.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.02 s | 2.6 KB |
| https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=8568956&cj=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 953 ms | 43 B |
| https://functions.adnami.io/api/macro/adsm.macro.vice.com.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 945 ms | 5.7 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-membership-chargebee/includes/assets/uploads/close.svg | images | 200 | 940 ms | 330 B |
| https://js.chargebee.com/v2/chargebee.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 932 ms | 278.2 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/[email protected] | images | 200 | 931 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=7004554&fmt=gif 3rd party | other | 302 | 919 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LRW6G9FTTK 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 918 ms | 193.1 KB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-THWQQMCK 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 918 ms | 128.6 KB |
| https://cdn.p-n.io/pushly-sdk.min.js?domain_key=GgqPm0euZqC0SNVytjfNCPEreUlWs7i8LIH5 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 918 ms | 55.9 KB |
| https://b-code.liadm.com/b-02qi.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 918 ms | 52.1 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-includes/js/dist/i18n.min.js?ver=781d11515ad3d91786ec | javascript | 200 | 917 ms | 2.4 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-parsely-3.16/build/loader.js?ver=71d37502d12f3838b80d | javascript | 200 | 917 ms | 1.3 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-membership-chargebee/assets/js/planModal.js?ver=1.0 | javascript | 200 | 916 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-compliance-dsar/assets/js/script.js?ver=1.1 | javascript | 200 | 915 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-platform/js/google-discover-tracking.js?ver=1.0.0 | javascript | 200 | 915 ms | 737 B |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-includes/js/heartbeat.min.js?ver=7.0.7 | javascript | 200 | 909 ms | 2.0 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-includes/js/dist/hooks.min.js?ver=7496969728ca0f95732d | javascript | 200 | 909 ms | 1.8 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-live-block-posts/assets/live-blog-front-end.js?ver=7.0.7 | javascript | 200 | 909 ms | 667 B |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1 | javascript | 200 | 908 ms | 30.7 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=3.4.1 | javascript | 200 | 908 ms | 4.9 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-platform/build/theme-language-picker/view.js?ver=ef3718c2b7e851faea93 | javascript | 200 | 908 ms | 3.1 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-platform/build/theme-menu-toggle/view.js?ver=79c4559ec695d5b32d6a | javascript | 200 | 908 ms | 2.8 KB |
| https://www.vice.com/wp-content/plugins/savage-platform/build/theme-language-redirect/view.js?ver=4db964ab2f584ed8d3d1 | javascript | 200 | 908 ms | 399 B |
| https://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-RxPFZR-mKeJrq.gif 3rd party | other | 405 | 908 ms | 19 B |
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