www.msn.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:33 UTC. Grade A (94/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 67 ms 23%
- TCP connect 43 ms 15%
- Server wait 180 ms 62%
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 289 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 628.9 KB over 14 request(s), which is lean. Javascript files are 97% 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.
- 96% 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 1.36 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- Layout stayed still (CLS 0.074), so nothing jumps under the reader's cursor.
- The main thread was blocked for 440 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Third-party weight - Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.
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. 14 request(s) in total, 628.9 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 605.1 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.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: common.8b9af5041130fb80.js (380.7 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
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://www.msn.com/location.href | other | 404 | 608 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.msn.com/e.href | other | 404 | 592 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.msn.com/e.scriptURL | other | 404 | 584 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.msn.com/`https://${e}${k}` | other | 404 | 560 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.msn.com/e=null,t | other | 404 | 551 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.msn.com/this.clientSettings,t | other | 404 | 545 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.msn.com/E | other | 404 | 533 ms | 0 B |
| https://www.msn.com/e | other | 404 | 530 ms | 0 B |
| https://assets.msn.com/bundles/v1/homePage/latest/experience.d29d86e26d8e1d9e.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 528 ms | 91.6 KB |
| https://assets.msn.com/bundles/v1/homePage/latest/microsoft.06c091abfda8af93.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 520 ms | 100.7 KB |
| https://assets.msn.com/bundles/v1/homePage/latest/common.8b9af5041130fb80.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 519 ms | 380.7 KB |
| https://assets.msn.com/bundles/v1/homePage/latest/vendors.d7d4b0f9df793c36.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 514 ms | 32.1 KB |
| https://www.msn.com/bundles/v1/homePage/latest/SSR-extension.cd7d030643d5a3a2.js | javascript | 200 | 493 ms | 7.0 KB |
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