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 PRAVDA
0.48s Backend
1s Start Render
1s Last Painted Hero
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
1.39s First CPU Idle
1.39s Time To Interactive
2.6s Fully Loaded
6.8s Visually Complete

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#2 LE MONDE
0.17s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Last Painted Hero
1.44s First CPU Idle
1.44s Time To Interactive
2.39s Fully Loaded
2.4s Visually Complete

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#3 THE GUARDIAN
0.08s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.82s Largest Contentful Paint
1.86s First CPU Idle
1.86s Time To Interactive
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Fully Loaded
2.2s Visually Complete

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#4 LA REPUBBLICA
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.09s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
2.45s First CPU Idle
2.45s Time To Interactive
16.81s Fully Loaded

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#5 DER SPIEGEL
0.08s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.61s Largest Contentful Paint
2.25s First CPU Idle
2.25s Time To Interactive
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
3.66s Fully Loaded

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#6 T-ONLINE
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.89s Largest Contentful Paint
3.14s First CPU Idle
3.14s Time To Interactive
3.34s Fully Loaded
10.1s Last Painted Hero
10.1s Visually Complete

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#7 EL PAIS
0.08s Backend
0.74s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
6.49s First CPU Idle
6.49s Time To Interactive
20.54s Fully Loaded

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#8 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.4s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
1.75s First CPU Idle
1.75s Time To Interactive
3.4s Last Painted Hero
3.4s Visually Complete
12.18s Fully Loaded

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#9 LE FIGARO
0.07s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.21s Largest Contentful Paint
3.34s First CPU Idle
3.34s Time To Interactive
3.9s Last Painted Hero
3.9s Visually Complete
22.15s Fully Loaded

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.41s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.26s Largest Contentful Paint
3.19s First CPU Idle
3.19s Time To Interactive
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
3.9s Fully Loaded

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#11 IRISH TIMES
0.09s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
3.45s First CPU Idle
3.45s Time To Interactive
3.49s Fully Loaded
3.8s Last Painted Hero
3.8s Visually Complete

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#12 BILD.DE
0.14s Backend
1s Start Render
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
5.52s First CPU Idle
5.52s Time To Interactive
5.8s Last Painted Hero
5.8s Visually Complete
6.15s Fully Loaded

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#13 RADIO FREE EUROPE
0.14s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
2.02s First CPU Idle
2.02s Time To Interactive
44.9s Visually Complete
65.28s Fully Loaded

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#14 BBC.CO.UK
0.08s Backend
0.3s Start Render
3.22s Largest Contentful Paint
4.73s First CPU Idle
4.73s Time To Interactive
5.09s Fully Loaded
5.1s Last Painted Hero
5.1s Visually Complete

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#15 THE TELEGRAPH
0.25s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
7.55s First CPU Idle
7.55s Time To Interactive
25.57s Fully Loaded

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