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
0.21s Backend
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.67s First CPU Idle
1.67s Time To Interactive
1.8s Visually Complete
2.61s Fully Loaded

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#2 PRAVDA
0.71s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
1.59s First CPU Idle
1.59s Time To Interactive
2.72s Fully Loaded
6.7s Visually Complete

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#3 THE GUARDIAN
0.08s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
1.84s First CPU Idle
1.84s Time To Interactive
2s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
2.31s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA REPUBBLICA
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.21s Largest Contentful Paint
2.76s First CPU Idle
2.76s Time To Interactive
17.03s Fully Loaded

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#5 T-ONLINE
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
3.44s First CPU Idle
3.44s Time To Interactive
3.8s Last Painted Hero
3.8s Visually Complete
4s Fully Loaded

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#6 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.44s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
2.23s First CPU Idle
2.23s Time To Interactive
3.2s Visually Complete
3.4s Last Painted Hero
12.31s Fully Loaded

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#7 DER SPIEGEL
0.09s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.57s Largest Contentful Paint
3.62s First CPU Idle
3.62s Time To Interactive
3.7s Last Painted Hero
3.7s Visually Complete
5.02s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.45s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.94s Largest Contentful Paint
2.07s First CPU Idle
2.07s Time To Interactive
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
2.91s Fully Loaded

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#9 EL PAIS
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.75s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
3.5s Visually Complete
7.44s First CPU Idle
7.44s Time To Interactive
21.49s Fully Loaded

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#10 RADIO FREE EUROPE
0.09s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2s Last Painted Hero
2s Visually Complete
2.09s Largest Contentful Paint
2.16s First CPU Idle
2.16s Time To Interactive
64.67s Fully Loaded

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#11 BILD.DE
0.19s Backend
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
4.37s First CPU Idle
4.37s Time To Interactive
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
6.01s Fully Loaded

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#12 IRISH TIMES
0.1s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.22s Largest Contentful Paint
4.13s First CPU Idle
4.13s Time To Interactive
4.28s Fully Loaded
4.4s Last Painted Hero
4.5s Visually Complete

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#13 BBC.CO.UK
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
4.7s Largest Contentful Paint
4.82s First CPU Idle
4.82s Time To Interactive
5.26s Fully Loaded
5.3s Last Painted Hero
5.3s Visually Complete

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#14 THE TELEGRAPH
0.28s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
8.42s First CPU Idle
8.42s Time To Interactive
29.45s Fully Loaded

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