www.nine.com.au speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:03 UTC. Grade C (75/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 89 ms 18%
- TCP connect 53 ms 11%
- Server wait 358 ms 72%
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 500 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 827.4 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 80% 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.
- 80% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 827.4 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 500 ms. Of that, 358 ms was the server thinking and 142 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 impact1 image(s) over 200 KB and 0 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.
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 660.8 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 163.9 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.
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://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.2784%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_23/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/03abe2b18b8755b03fc949452ff181ea4731f398597777e06444932997cb3114, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.266%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_72%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/5ea9437a57b5e6d3d814c31657e6fe3d90d805ef9e40d95f6fb8121adaa7ac13, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.1813%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_35%2C$y_13/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/799d0e1d70eb0d74c1b461443aa0d851df8aa51cd96f5d6e59788d5413cbaacd, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.2032%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_33%2C$y_39/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/72ca20e0bdf0bc2f73ebb8fa60674bb43083eaf08daae09b7957a61681166b99, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.35%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_188%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/64444dac1b9e283cbc70e43f6f623c92075162cf, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.456%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_134%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/b74143651d4da48e2c649507f9af0b61ccaf169ab28fa8a35f28ee58d16bd193, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.7%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/a8af21c7b7bd86fad7ab987b220f0ac019ec3cb2f40c8bcecde44c8fb4e729d4, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.26%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/06acba111ce7f5d4be2079cc52ffc93c33a575d32eb0bfbe321e6ce96c8b8e5a, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.664%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_296%2C$y_18/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/6dd90a086bf85b9df0f68f40ee54b84036624452ed88e767bb2e9df288bffec0, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.1135%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_181%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/0b3a18e7c16b9cd24f6d84d9ccde6544798da8d3, 3rd party | other | 404 | 5.13 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.828%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_382%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/671dd2c02ff65842a6f07aa958a6a1a445709236c86b8ec4cb1c662d34bdd8e0, 3rd party | other | 404 | 2.51 s | 0 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.26%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/06acba111ce7f5d4be2079cc52ffc93c33a575d32eb0bfbe321e6ce96c8b8e5a 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.64 s | 443.3 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.828%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_382%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/671dd2c02ff65842a6f07aa958a6a1a445709236c86b8ec4cb1c662d34bdd8e0 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.49 s | 44.8 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.2784%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_23/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/03abe2b18b8755b03fc949452ff181ea4731f398597777e06444932997cb3114 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.45 s | 28.0 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.664%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_296%2C$y_18/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/6dd90a086bf85b9df0f68f40ee54b84036624452ed88e767bb2e9df288bffec0 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.45 s | 10.4 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.1813%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_35%2C$y_13/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/799d0e1d70eb0d74c1b461443aa0d851df8aa51cd96f5d6e59788d5413cbaacd 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.44 s | 19.5 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.35%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_188%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/64444dac1b9e283cbc70e43f6f623c92075162cf 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.42 s | 20.1 KB |
| https://www.nine.com.au/hashed-assets/bing.ba5870bf.svg | images | 200 | 1.41 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://www.nine.com.au/hashed-assets/TVGuide.43d0b3ee.svg | images | 200 | 1.40 s | 224 B |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.7%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/a8af21c7b7bd86fad7ab987b220f0ac019ec3cb2f40c8bcecde44c8fb4e729d4 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.40 s | 18.6 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.266%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_72%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_220%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/5ea9437a57b5e6d3d814c31657e6fe3d90d805ef9e40d95f6fb8121adaa7ac13 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.39 s | 22.3 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.1135%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_181%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/0b3a18e7c16b9cd24f6d84d9ccde6544798da8d3 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.39 s | 17.1 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.456%2C$multiply_2%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_134%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/b74143651d4da48e2c649507f9af0b61ccaf169ab28fa8a35f28ee58d16bd193 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.38 s | 17.3 KB |
| https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.2032%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_33%2C$y_39/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_144%2Ce_sharpen:60%2Cq_auto:best%2Cfl_any_format/72ca20e0bdf0bc2f73ebb8fa60674bb43083eaf08daae09b7957a61681166b99 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.38 s | 19.6 KB |
| https://www.nine.com.au/hashed-assets/horoscope.cc8fedef.svg | images | 200 | 1.36 s | 892 B |
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