www.news.com.au speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:16 UTC. Grade C (71/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 75 ms 6%
- TCP connect 51 ms 4%
- Server wait 1.17 s 90%
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 took 1.30 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 450.7 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 84% 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.
- 84% 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 396 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, 450.7 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 1295 ms. Of that, 1170 ms was the server thinking and 126 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 impact3 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (0 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 impact1 third-party host(s) serve 377.7 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://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/8e43c7ffb0f326dc65dd1e3459c225cf 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.86 s | 2.2 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/b42bbb8e411d2795a4692a7eba2bfbe6?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.76 s | 4.4 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/e62fbe9a2609f9be8b258598031f92c8?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.72 s | 2.9 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/d0eb657be972236ec1f6799dffd3909b 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.70 s | 2.8 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/8e43c7ffb0f326dc65dd1e3459c225cf?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.70 s | 3.8 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ce26c8a20029f904ea3768a73353b275?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.64 s | 5.0 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/b42bbb8e411d2795a4692a7eba2bfbe6 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.63 s | 2.4 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/8eac8876dabce2636d5f19ba57c6f178 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.59 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/49fc9df9654dece9493ad259a03f5cda 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.57 s | 2.6 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/62db490ca390d928c0549d6b35e20430 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.57 s | 2.4 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/6a19c09df26a1a3999b9056d99b3909a?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.56 s | 2.5 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/62db490ca390d928c0549d6b35e20430?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.53 s | 4.2 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ee7ae6367a5138ccc90f2f9724ebefdb?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.52 s | 3.6 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/6a19c09df26a1a3999b9056d99b3909a 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.51 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/8eac8876dabce2636d5f19ba57c6f178?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.48 s | 3.5 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/49fc9df9654dece9493ad259a03f5cda?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.46 s | 4.6 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/94c9cd7415c1be4a3da3f23cfd0b6561?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.43 s | 3.6 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ee7ae6367a5138ccc90f2f9724ebefdb 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.39 s | 2.1 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ce26c8a20029f904ea3768a73353b275 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.13 s | 107.2 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/e62fbe9a2609f9be8b258598031f92c8 3rd party | images | 200 | 991 ms | 70.2 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/c7758000f091d667cd3d0a6babbf852a 3rd party | images | 200 | 966 ms | 88.5 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/c7758000f091d667cd3d0a6babbf852a?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 958 ms | 6.3 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/94c9cd7415c1be4a3da3f23cfd0b6561 3rd party | images | 200 | 946 ms | 44.5 KB |
| https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/d0eb657be972236ec1f6799dffd3909b?width=150 3rd party | images | 200 | 946 ms | 5.1 KB |
| https://www.news.com.au/wp-content/themes/newscorpau-news-dna/dist/images/logos/news.svg | images | 200 | 940 ms | 1.7 KB |
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