www.khaleejtimes.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 15:52 UTC. Grade A (93/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 87 ms 26%
- TCP connect 59 ms 18%
- Server wait 190 ms 57%
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
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What these numbers mean
- The first byte arrived in 335 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 153.3 KB over 26 request(s). Images files are 58% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 58% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
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.
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Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 153.3 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact11 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (2 script(s), 9 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.
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://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-10-20/oh4mq24y/gene-therapy.jpg?width=100&height=67&q=40&format=auto&mode=crop&rect=13%2C0%2C485%2C323 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.05 s | 2.0 KB |
| https://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-08-07/ve2tv1gr/A10747-Sports-Venues-and-Community-Development-Image-5.webp?width=100&height=67&q=40&format=auto&mode=crop&rect=27%2C0%2C1350%2C900 3rd party | images | 200 | 1.05 s | 2.1 KB |
| https://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-10-20/zztnvn48/makkah.jpeg?width=100&height=67&q=40&format=auto&mode=crop&rect=0%2C0%2C5374%2C3583 3rd party | images | 200 | 995 ms | 1.7 KB |
| https://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-10-20/96wrgco7/1X1-X2.png?width=100&height=67&q=30&format=auto&mode=crop&rect=0%2C13%2C405%2C270 3rd party | images | 200 | 991 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/488ywxmn/youtube.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 983 ms | 599 B |
| https://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-06-04/mhopf0xs/sharjah-police.avif?width=600&height=400&q=60&format=auto&mode=crop&rect=4,0,797,531 3rd party | images | 200 | 982 ms | 42.0 KB |
| https://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-06-04/mhopf0xs/sharjah-police.avif?width=100&height=67&q=60&format=auto&mode=crop&rect=4%2C0%2C797%2C531 3rd party | images | 200 | 982 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-06/9mgtwjom/Gold.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 977 ms | 1.2 KB |
| https://fea.assettype.com/khaleejtimes/images/icons/kt-192x192-latest.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 971 ms | 11.7 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-06/ym6h4i75/Epaper.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 969 ms | 497 B |
| https://imgengine.khaleejtimes.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-10-20/adi09f18/hajar-al-aswad.jpeg?width=100&height=67&q=40&format=auto&mode=crop&rect=0%2C197%2C1268%2C845 3rd party | images | 200 | 954 ms | 576 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-06/gidrhxn9/search-nf-26.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 948 ms | 593 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/3dp04xzi/whatsapp.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 947 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/n22789ao/twitter.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 943 ms | 527 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/72k64udg/linkedin.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 941 ms | 568 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/i5odlr5c/facebook.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 939 ms | 548 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-08-05/aeqex004/calculator-with-gold.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 933 ms | 2.5 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-06/2s5cbafl/Forex.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 931 ms | 1.6 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/6nnwtgrv/ios-icon-burger-menu.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 931 ms | 1008 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-06/ac2101vo/logo.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 930 ms | 5.9 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/v4qpemyq/android-icon-burger-menu.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 930 ms | 930 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-06/l0ro1tfk/sign-in-nf.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 930 ms | 771 B |
| https://fea.assettype.com/khaleejtimes/images/logo.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 925 ms | 5.8 KB |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-09/7xesd8oi/instagram.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 924 ms | 956 B |
| https://images.assettype.com/khaleejtimes-english/2026-03-06/9hv16enq/Prayer.svg 3rd party | images | 200 | 918 ms | 944 B |
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