www.dailymail.com/ushome/index.html speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:26 UTC. Grade B (82/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
A newer test of this page exists: 20 Oct 2026, grade C (79/100). This older result is kept for comparison.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 66 ms 11%
- TCP connect 37 ms 6%
- Server wait 509 ms 83%
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.
Score history
2 tests of this URL, oldest to newest: 82 → 79 out of 100. The top line is a perfect score.
What these numbers mean
- The first byte took 612 ms. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
- The page transfers 441.5 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.
- 66% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
- The largest element painted at 164 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
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.
Screenshot
What the page looks like
Loaded in headless Chromium on this server. Click an image to open it full size.
Browser render
The same URL loaded in a real browser, so these are the readings curl cannot produce. The grade above is still built from the server measurements.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 441.5 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 612 ms. Of that, 509 ms was the server thinking and 103 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 impact26 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (6 script(s), 20 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact3 third-party host(s) serve 292.8 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.
HTML document size
medium impactThe document transfers 148.7 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.
Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact2 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://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/dailyMailLogo-0ebaf5a478e189e5.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 991 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/loginIcon-13acbd533a168273.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 967 ms | 818 B |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/19/20/111962399-0-image-a-43_1792438208201.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 966 ms | 9.6 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/13/1792498402931_3357754547058663.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 17.2 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/19/22/111964541-0-image-a-7_1792446834507.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 10.3 KB |
| https://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/mailCondensedStickyLogo-74c705f1fa6a3a70.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 951 ms | 1015 B |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/06/1792473262273_7877492459734331.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 935 ms | 27.1 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/i/pix/channelheaders/US.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 935 ms | 1.9 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/06/1792473138153_6114931719029421.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 934 ms | 30.4 KB |
| https://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/loginIconWhite-152a09e9847f89a9.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 922 ms | 762 B |
| https://i.dailymail.com/i/pix/channelheaders/AU.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 916 ms | 2.3 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/08/111970451-0-image-m-17_1792480227266.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 913 ms | 5.1 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/13/111389719-0-image-m-7_1792498397362.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 898 ms | 19.3 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/12/111974983-0-image-m-2_1792495130922.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 896 ms | 87.6 KB |
| https://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/chevronRightWhite-a202690e17991fcb.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 894 ms | 564 B |
| https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/channelheaders/IE.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 891 ms | 624 B |
| https://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/homeIcon-eb9f6320328f8958.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 890 ms | 813 B |
| https://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/tickIcon-e6beda2522536d7a.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 889 ms | 655 B |
| https://scripts.dailymail.com/static/mol-fe/static/mol-fe-xpmodule-navigation/2.15.0/chevronRight-a49917b602403523.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 886 ms | 716 B |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/13/1792498007350_9781801030521588.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 880 ms | 22.4 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/19/20/111962689-0-image-a-14_1792438985702.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 880 ms | 6.2 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/i/pix/channelheaders/UK.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 876 ms | 2.1 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/06/05/17/99076691-0-image-m-23_1749140263353.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 872 ms | 6.2 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/02/1792459651603_8670052928834578.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 866 ms | 25.8 KB |
| https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/10/20/11/111973941-0-image-m-21_1792492630510.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 858 ms | 11.0 KB |
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