www.newsmax.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:40 UTC. Grade B (88/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.newsmax.com/

20 October 2026 at 15:40 UTC · Free test · report pt_6eaa6854a291

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Grade

88/100

Performance92/100

Structure82/100

12 audit(s) passed, 4 need work

First byte (TTFB)428 msmeasured from this server

Fully loaded2.11 sfirst byte + slowest asset

Requests26document + assets

Page weight246.6 KBcompressed transfer

HTML document83.7 KBgzip

ProtocolHTTP/3Microsoft-IIS/10.0

Third-party2.4 KBother hosts

Where the first byte went

DNS lookup 70 ms 16%
TCP connect 40 ms 9%
Server wait 318 ms 74%

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

First bytefaster than 52% of 4,999 pages tested here428 ms against a median of 449 ms

Page weightlighter than 76% of 4,999 pages tested here246.6 KB against a median of 650.5 KB

Fully loadedslower than 61% of 4,999 pages tested here2.11 s against a median of 1.84 s

Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 against a median of 26

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 428 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
The page transfers 246.6 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 66% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.

Fix first: Server response time (TTFB) - Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

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.

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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

Images 25 requests

162.9 KB 66%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 246.6 KB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 428 ms. Of that, 318 ms was the server thinking and 110 ms was connection setup. A first byte under 400 ms is what a visitor feels as instant.

Fix: Cut server think time: page cache, query indexes, fewer synchronous calls to third parties inside the request. Connection setup is distance, so a nearer region or a CDN edge helps instead.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

19 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (12 script(s), 7 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 impact

1 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.

Avoid extra redirects

medium impact

1 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.