www.vg.no speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:41 UTC. Grade B (87/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 80 ms 16%
- TCP connect 42 ms 8%
- Server wait 375 ms 75%
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 497 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 328.5 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 80% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 76% 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 1.11 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.063), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
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, 328.5 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 497 ms. Of that, 375 ms was the server thinking and 122 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 impact16 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (13 script(s), 3 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 impact5 third-party host(s) serve 248.5 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://imbo.vgc.no/s/a087hOF 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.56 s | 6.1 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/73f368eb-14b4-3f64-9e6d-50bb84279dd3?fit=crop&format=auto&w=40&s=0ad4536edb122a10045c61615059773896401d92 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.39 s | 1.2 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/9d2efaeb-8a23-377c-a69c-26ed8e509622?fit=crop&format=auto&w=40&s=2c4b57cd0874a0042b8f3118d1a0b899caf13ea8 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.37 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/c6fd4f11-26ae-39a0-a82a-fdcc8cb0c1f2?fit=crop&format=auto&w=40&s=6c67cca54f98415f94cbaa17adb19d5d43e439a0 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.36 s | 787 B |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/4071bc43-6324-35bd-a4db-0961808b73c0?fit=crop&format=auto&w=40&s=76e74da3fe9c1aa33fc59658f14811138c47d1fe 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.08 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://akamai.vgc.no/v2/images/922f72b7-71b9-35fe-be98-b5d0b153d0e7?fit=crop&format=auto&w=40&s=8417b01f3cdaad90bb468c76cab9ea957ecfd61f 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.03 s | 1.1 KB |
| https://adsdk.microsoft.com/ast/ast.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.01 s | 59.8 KB |
| https://log.medietall.no/analytics.v2.legacy.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.01 s | 67.1 KB |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/initTracking.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.Bq5qc3Qa.js | javascript | 200 | 970 ms | 10.1 KB |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/PlusIconExperiment.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.lfatAvW-.js | javascript | 200 | 962 ms | 612 B |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/InitTesting.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.DdrXbvIu.js | javascript | 200 | 960 ms | 842 B |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/PushBanner.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.BAOsTrIp.js | javascript | 200 | 947 ms | 4.2 KB |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/SubscriptionAccess.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.D9sKRAY_.js | javascript | 200 | 947 ms | 666 B |
| https://esm.schibsted.tech/[email protected]/es2020/react.mjs 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 946 ms | 4.0 KB |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/BlendStore.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.CKwAFG8D.js | javascript | 200 | 939 ms | 496 B |
| https://log.medietall.no/analytics.v2.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 931 ms | 29.9 KB |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/AutoLoginDialog.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.6-eKHJ15.js | javascript | 200 | 931 ms | 545 B |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/page.BvRk9kiK.js | javascript | 200 | 931 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/InitializeAdverts.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.DydK_fXO.js | javascript | 200 | 928 ms | 837 B |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/Medietall.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.B-9DC66e.js | javascript | 200 | 921 ms | 859 B |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/TCF.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.DgZAqot-.js | javascript | 200 | 920 ms | 6.8 KB |
| https://www.vg.no/front-page-assets/_astro/AccountStore.astro_astro_type_script_index_0_lang.D-tOU_l7.js | javascript | 200 | 920 ms | 667 B |
| https://esm.schibsted.tech/[email protected]/es2020/client.mjs 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 897 ms | 72.4 KB |
| https://esm.schibsted.tech/[email protected]/es2020/react-dom.mjs 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 897 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://esm.schibsted.tech/[email protected]/es2020/jsx-runtime.mjs 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 896 ms | 853 B |
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