www.skysports.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:49 UTC. Grade A (94/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 52 ms 20%
- TCP connect 36 ms 14%
- Server wait 167 ms 65%
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 255 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 1.00 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 95% 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.
- 95% 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 1.36 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 136 ms in total, which is not enough to feel.
Fix first: Total page weight - Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
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, 1.00 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 1.00 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 52.8 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact2 third-party host(s) serve 971.5 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.
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://img001-eu-mo-prd.delivery.skycdp.com/select/logo?entityId=6627732418081674117&width=600&height=50&rule=SkySportsDark 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.33 s | 5.1 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-mikey-lewis-england_7375628.jpg?20261020074329 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.12 s | 21.2 KB |
| https://img001-eu-mo-prd.delivery.skycdp.com/select/logo?entityId=6858995960279493117&width=600&height=50&rule=SkySportsDark 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 4.1 KB |
| https://www.skysports.com/assets/ui-graphics/ui-site-header-sky-sports-uk-logo.svg | images | 200 | 1.02 s | 2.4 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-brock-purdy-san-francisco-49ers_7381237.jpg?20261020061506 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 46.5 KB |
| https://img001-eu-mo-prd.delivery.skycdp.com/select/logo?entityId=4896228439428403117&width=600&height=50&rule=SkySportsDark 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.01 s | 4.9 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-cristiano-ronaldo_7372969.jpg?20261010141017 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.00 s | 52.9 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-pierre-sage-crystal-palace_7380952.jpg?20261019180339 3rd party | images | 200 | 999 ms | 58.5 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-south-africa-durban_7381549.jpg?20261020115441 3rd party | images | 200 | 997 ms | 61.8 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-erik-ten-hag-manchester-united_7381344.jpg?20261020082540 3rd party | images | 200 | 995 ms | 61.1 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-max-verstappen-red-bull_7380811.jpg?20261019151152 3rd party | images | 200 | 995 ms | 60.7 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/08/768x432/skysports-paper-talk-football_7317647.jpg?20260809160824 3rd party | images | 200 | 994 ms | 35.3 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/08/768x432/skysports-tottenham-club-blog_7326708.jpg?20260820165557 3rd party | images | 200 | 994 ms | 33.6 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-cricket-england-banton_7381688.jpg?20261020133530 3rd party | images | 200 | 992 ms | 46.8 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-reik-ten-hag-ronaldo_7381495.jpg?20261020111517 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 68.1 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-dejan-kulusevski_7381309.jpg?20261020074307 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 61.3 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-spurs-coventry_7381175.jpg?20261019221818 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 54.7 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-lampard-goal_7381329.jpg?20261020080219 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 52.7 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-spurs-coventry_7381132.jpg?20261019212542 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 48.5 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-spurs-coventry_7381159.jpg?20261019220126 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 44.2 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-football-pl-tottenham_7381212.jpg?20261019225806 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 43.4 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-erik-ten-hag-man-utd_7381343.jpg?20261020082042 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 38.3 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-james-maddison-tottenham_7381256.jpg?20261020063515 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 35.8 KB |
| https://e0.365dm.com/26/10/768x432/skysports-lebron-james-nba_7371793.jpg?20261009075418 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 26.9 KB |
| https://img001-eu-mo-prd.delivery.skycdp.com/select/logo?entityId=8800573917753836117&width=600&height=50&rule=SkySportsDark 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 5.1 KB |
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