www.wowhead.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:11 UTC. Grade B (80/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 60 ms 9%
- TCP connect 37 ms 6%
- Server wait 545 ms 85%
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 642 ms. Everything else waits for that number, so the server is where to start: caching, a slow query, or an overloaded host.
- The page transfers 893.5 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 95% 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.
- 95% 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, 893.5 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Server response time (TTFB)
high impactThe first byte arrived after 642 ms. Of that, 545 ms was the server thinking and 97 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 impact57 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (40 script(s), 17 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.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 893.5 KB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 41.7 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact4 third-party host(s) serve 851.8 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.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: global-core.js (244.0 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
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://wow.zamimg.com/js/3rd-party/jquery.2.1.3.min.js?fa3be9bf 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.46 s | 28.8 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/generated/game-env.js?e5c1729e 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.45 s | 93 B |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/News/Filter.js?6183476e 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.41 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/preamble.js?066f8967 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.38 s | 651 B |
| https://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-80xBzMhbKolFI.gif?labels=_fp.event.Default 3rd party | other | 405 | 1.34 s | 19 B |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/News/Card/Simple.js?203ce52d 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.29 s | 1.4 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/News/PaginationUrls.js?932f8c00 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.29 s | 244 B |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/locale/terms/enus.js?6476e082 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.27 s | 46.4 KB |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/otSDKStub.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.25 s | 13.6 KB |
| https://nether.wowhead.com/data/global?dv=86&db=1791976965&versionsSig=df36d39008961fdbc42c06c7bf235699 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.25 s | 70.8 KB |
| https://nether.wowhead.com/menus/root?hash=ff731ef0448078943c046137c68fa554 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.24 s | 4.7 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/global-strings/live.enus.js?hash=d2yPEwBuluRUXDJmyXpglw 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.24 s | 3.6 KB |
| https://nether.wowhead.com/menus?hash=ff731ef0448078943c046137c68fa554 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 125.3 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/tooltips.js?1f440611 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 62.5 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/react/main.32068f54.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 5.0 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/Home/ContentSpotlight.js?16f4aac1 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 2.2 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/News/PaginationBar.js?b5422dab 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 698 B |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/News/Card/Thin.js?731f4640 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 606 B |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/News/NewsList.js?a7327605 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 542 B |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/WH/News/LoadingHandler.js?75c7a6de 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 204 B |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/global-core.js?5081ad59 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 244.0 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/react/vendors-react.80ccf0e8.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 113.2 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/react/vendors-fontawesome.7e553640.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 60.8 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/global-tags.js?5b011ad6 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 60.2 KB |
| https://wow.zamimg.com/js/react/runtime.7c6b9a3a.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 1.22 s | 4.2 KB |
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