www.swissinfo.ch/eng speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:49 UTC. Grade F (41/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/

20 October 2026 at 14:49 UTC · Free test · report pt_c5a2d5badebb

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Grade

41/100

Performance29/100

Structure59/100

9 audit(s) passed, 7 need work

First byte (TTFB)3.40 smeasured from this server

Fully loaded4.44 sfirst byte + slowest asset

Requests26document + assets

Page weight51.84 MBcompressed transfer

HTML document557.9 KBbr

ProtocolHTTP/3nginx

Where the first byte went

DNS lookup 53 ms 2%
TCP connect 45 ms 1%
Server wait 3.30 s 97%

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 byteslower than 99% of 4,999 pages tested here3.40 s against a median of 448 ms

Page weightheavier than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here51.84 MB against a median of 650.3 KB

Fully loadedslower than 89% of 4,999 pages tested here4.44 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 took 3.40 s. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
The page transfers 51.84 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 99% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
The HTML itself arrives br-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.

No screenshot for this report.

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

51.29 MB 99%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 51.84 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Server response time (TTFB)

high impact

The first byte arrived after 3395 ms. Of that, 3297 ms was the server thinking and 98 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.

Image delivery and format

high impact

15 image(s) over 200 KB and 18 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.

Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

5 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (3 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 impact

The page transfers 51.84 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 557.9 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 557.9 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.