www.nhk.or.jp speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:42 UTC. Grade A (90/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 53 ms 11%
- TCP connect 32 ms 7%
- Server wait 400 ms 82%
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 485 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 350.3 KB over 4 request(s), which is lean. Javascript files are 84% 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.
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. 4 request(s) in total, 350.3 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 485 ms. Of that, 400 ms was the server thinking and 85 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.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: onlinetop.js (294.0 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.
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://www.nhk.or.jp/assets/conf/env.js | javascript | 200 | 577 ms | 20 B |
| https://www.nhk.or.jp/toppage/parts/js/20261019/onlinetop.js | javascript | 200 | 502 ms | 294.0 KB |
| https://www.nhk.or.jp/toppage/parts/css/20260928/onlinetop.css | css | 200 | 452 ms | 54.1 KB |
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