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
0.22s Backend
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
1.32s First CPU Idle
1.32s Time To Interactive
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
2.2s Fully Loaded

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#2 RADIO FREE EUROPE
0.14s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.9s Last Painted Hero
2s Visually Complete
2.12s First CPU Idle
2.12s Time To Interactive
2.17s Largest Contentful Paint
3.52s Fully Loaded

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#3 PRAVDA
1.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.58s Largest Contentful Paint
1.88s First CPU Idle
1.88s Time To Interactive
3.21s Fully Loaded
7s Visually Complete

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#4 DER SPIEGEL
0.08s Backend
0.58s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Start Render
2.06s First CPU Idle
2.06s Time To Interactive
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
3.49s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA REPUBBLICA
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.15s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.5s First CPU Idle
2.5s Time To Interactive
16.86s Fully Loaded

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#6 THE GUARDIAN
0.09s Backend
0.75s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
1.9s First CPU Idle
1.9s Time To Interactive
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
2.37s Fully Loaded

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#7 T-ONLINE
0.1s Backend
0.68s Largest Contentful Paint
0.7s Start Render
3.4s First CPU Idle
3.4s Time To Interactive
9.92s Fully Loaded
11s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete

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#8 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.41s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.9s First CPU Idle
1.9s Time To Interactive
3.32s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
3.5s Visually Complete
12.29s Fully Loaded

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#9 EL PAIS
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.82s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
7.19s First CPU Idle
7.19s Time To Interactive
20.93s Fully Loaded

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#10 BILD.DE
0.1s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.22s Largest Contentful Paint
4.23s First CPU Idle
4.23s Time To Interactive
5.09s Fully Loaded
5.1s Last Painted Hero
5.1s Visually Complete

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#11 IRISH TIMES
0.09s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
3.29s First CPU Idle
3.29s Time To Interactive
3.4s Fully Loaded
3.7s Last Painted Hero
3.7s Visually Complete

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#12 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.38s Backend
1s Start Render
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
5.29s First CPU Idle
5.29s Time To Interactive
5.4s Last Painted Hero
9.28s Fully Loaded
10.5s Visually Complete

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#13 BBC.CO.UK
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
4.84s Largest Contentful Paint
4.97s First CPU Idle
4.97s Time To Interactive
5.42s Fully Loaded
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete

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#14 THE TELEGRAPH
0.34s Backend
0.7s Start Render
5.02s Largest Contentful Paint
6.78s First CPU Idle
6.78s Time To Interactive
9.91s Fully Loaded
12.7s Last Painted Hero
12.7s Visually Complete

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