www.dallasnews.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:29 UTC. Grade A (92/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 56 ms 20%
- TCP connect 46 ms 17%
- Server wait 175 ms 63%
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 277 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 218.4 KB over 25 request(s).
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- The largest element painted at 1.29 s, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 218 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Render-blocking resources - 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.
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.
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. 25 request(s) in total, 218.4 KB across all of them.
Top issues
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.
TLS certificate validity
high impactThe certificate for www.dallasnews.com has 21 day(s) left.
Fix: Renew automatically (certbot with a working renewal timer) and alert on the certificate, not on the renew command, so a silent failure is caught weeks before a browser warning.
HTML document size
medium impactThe document transfers 139.9 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.
Strict-Transport-Security
low impactHSTS is not set, so the first visit on a hostile network can still be downgraded to HTTP.
Fix: Send Strict-Transport-Security with a max-age of at least six months. Add includeSubDomains once every subdomain is HTTPS.
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://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/37/05/31322489/8/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.43 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/65/27/07/30765562/9/ratio1x1_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.41 s | 1.9 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/51/52/31365778/5/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.34 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/32/17/31302636/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.32 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/51/26/31364528/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.32 s | 1.4 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/62/35/51/30005848/6/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.30 s | 1.7 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/50/30/31360517/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.25 s | 1.5 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/46/72/31354538/5/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.25 s | 2.1 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/56/10/16/28869552/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.23 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/52/61/31370346/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.22 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/51/03/31363327/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.21 s | 1.9 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/46/40/31352842/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.20 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/63/56/42/30337186/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.20 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/34/47/31312362/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.19 s | 1.6 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/45/66/31350170/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.19 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/35/77/31317989/5/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.18 s | 2.3 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/53/17/31372258/3/ratio1x1_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.18 s | 1.8 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/53/10/31371837/3/ratio1x1_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.17 s | 2.6 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/60/05/65/29384049/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 969 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/66/43/07/31076833/3/ratio3x2_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 944 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://www.dallasnews.com/_next/static/chunks/1264.d095dcd905d309be.js | javascript | 200 | 939 ms | 590 B |
| https://www.dallasnews.com/_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js | javascript | 200 | 938 ms | 37.6 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/63/72/13/30384881/5/ratio1x1_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 929 ms | 1.5 KB |
| https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/67/53/17/31372240/3/ratio1x1_80.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 924 ms | 2.9 KB |
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