SpeedCurve

Page Speed Benchmarks

Page speed has a huge impact on user experience. Faster sites have been proven to have lower bounce rates, higher conversion rates, bigger shopping cart sizes, and happier users. In these dashboards, we rank industry-leading websites based on how fast their pages appear to load, from a user’s perspective. For each site, click through to see their detailed test results.

Desktop Fast - Tested every day in Chrome with a fast connection (80Mbps/40Mbps 10ms RTT). Sites are sorted by SpeedIndex which is the average time at which visible parts of the page are displayed.

MEDIA SITES IN EUROPE ON A DESKTOP FAST CONNECTION

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#1 LE MONDE
0.2s Backend
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.36s First CPU Idle
1.36s Time To Interactive
1.5s Visually Complete
2.29s Fully Loaded

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#2 RADIO FREE EUROPE
0.08s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.67s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.74s First CPU Idle
1.74s Time To Interactive
16s Visually Complete
64.78s Fully Loaded

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#3 DER SPIEGEL
0.07s Backend
0.51s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Start Render
1.76s First CPU Idle
1.76s Time To Interactive
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
3.3s Fully Loaded

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#4 PRAVDA
0.83s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.53s Largest Contentful Paint
1.83s First CPU Idle
1.83s Time To Interactive
4.38s Fully Loaded
6.7s Visually Complete

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#5 THE GUARDIAN
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
1.83s First CPU Idle
1.83s Time To Interactive
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.29s Fully Loaded

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#6 LA REPUBBLICA
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.28s Largest Contentful Paint
2.88s First CPU Idle
2.88s Time To Interactive
16.97s Fully Loaded

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#7 T-ONLINE
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
3.08s First CPU Idle
3.08s Time To Interactive
3.5s Last Painted Hero
10.07s Fully Loaded
11s Visually Complete

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#8 EL PAIS
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
6.75s First CPU Idle
6.75s Time To Interactive
21.05s Fully Loaded

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#9 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.42s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.87s First CPU Idle
1.87s Time To Interactive
3.03s Largest Contentful Paint
3.1s Visually Complete
3.4s Last Painted Hero
12.22s Fully Loaded

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.52s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.93s Largest Contentful Paint
2.84s First CPU Idle
2.84s Time To Interactive
2.96s Fully Loaded
3s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete

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#11 BILD.DE
0.1s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
4.58s First CPU Idle
4.58s Time To Interactive
4.86s Fully Loaded
5s Last Painted Hero
5s Visually Complete

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#12 IRISH TIMES
0.16s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
2.87s First CPU Idle
2.87s Time To Interactive
3.85s Fully Loaded
4.1s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete

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#13 BBC.CO.UK
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
3.31s Largest Contentful Paint
4.93s First CPU Idle
4.93s Time To Interactive
5s Fully Loaded
5s Last Painted Hero
5s Visually Complete

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#14 LE FIGARO
0.1s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.46s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
6.56s First CPU Idle
6.56s Time To Interactive
7.1s Visually Complete
23.71s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE TELEGRAPH
0.28s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.15s Largest Contentful Paint
5.35s First CPU Idle
5.35s Time To Interactive
7.5s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
23.01s Fully Loaded

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