www.bostonglobe.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:46 UTC. Grade C (78/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 65 ms 18%
- TCP connect 52 ms 14%
- Server wait 248 ms 68%
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 365 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 2.01 MB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 68% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 1.62 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout shift is 0.183 (good is under 0.1): something without a reserved size is loading late - an image, an ad, or a font swap.
- The main thread was blocked for 2.37 s, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
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.
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, 2.01 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact9 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (7 script(s), 2 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.
Total page weight
high impactThe page transfers 2.01 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 643.8 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Cache static assets
medium impact2 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 impact12 third-party host(s) serve 388.9 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 643.8 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.
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://cdn.speedcurve.com/js/lux.js?id=34523222 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 916 ms | 12.0 KB |
| https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035042&cv=2.0&cj=1 3rd party | images | 200 | 909 ms | 43 B |
| https://meter.bostonglobe.com/js/piano-meter.js?d=710 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 888 ms | 117.7 KB |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/images/bg-logo--full-theme-dark.svg?d=710 | images | 200 | 838 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/images/icons/favicon-32x32.png?v=bostonGlobe&d=710 | images | 200 | 835 ms | 834 B |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/images/bg-logo--full.svg?d=710 | images | 200 | 834 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/images/bg-logo--bug-medium.svg?d=710 | images | 200 | 829 ms | 943 B |
| https://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat_mab.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 827 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/images/bg-logo--bug-theme-dark.svg?d=710 | images | 200 | 825 ms | 943 B |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/images/favicon.png?v=bostonGlobe&d=710 | images | 200 | 824 ms | 670 B |
| https://cdn.tinypass.com/api/tinypass.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 823 ms | 141.6 KB |
| https://cdn.blueconic.net/bostonglobemedia.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 819 ms | 44.8 KB |
| https://js.datadome.co/tags.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 799 ms | 46.2 KB |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/dist/components/combinations/default.js?d=710&mxId=00000000 | javascript | 200 | 797 ms | 909.3 KB |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/dist/engine/react.js?d=710&mxId=00000000 | javascript | 200 | 791 ms | 103.1 KB |
| https://www.queryly.com/images/globe_searchicon.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 791 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://intljs.rmtag.com/111668.ct.js 3rd party | other | 405 | 791 ms | 19 B |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/otSDKStub.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 790 ms | 13.6 KB |
| https://www.queryly.com/js/queryly.v4.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 790 ms | 10.3 KB |
| https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/js/md5.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 790 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/focus-visible.js?d=710 | javascript | 200 | 790 ms | 1.0 KB |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/pf/resources/froomle.js?d=710 | javascript | 200 | 790 ms | 974 B |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/consent/cmp.stub.js 3rd party | javascript | 405 | 790 ms | 18 B |
| https://cdn.attn.tv/bostonglobe/dtag.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 787 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.bostonglobe.com/https://www.facebook.com/ tr?id=884869448226452&ev=PageView&noscript=1 | other | 0 | 0 ms | 0 B |
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