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
0.99s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
1s Last Painted Hero
1.19s First CPU Idle
1.19s Time To Interactive
1.3s Visually Complete
2.12s Fully Loaded

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#2 PRAVDA
0.45s Backend
1s Start Render
1s Last Painted Hero
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
1.28s First CPU Idle
1.28s Time To Interactive
4.41s Fully Loaded
6.6s Visually Complete

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#3 DER SPIEGEL
0.09s Backend
0.56s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Start Render
1.94s First CPU Idle
1.94s Time To Interactive
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
3.43s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE GUARDIAN
0.08s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
1.08s First CPU Idle
1.08s Time To Interactive
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.19s Fully Loaded
2.2s Visually Complete

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#5 RADIO FREE EUROPE
0.11s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
1.89s First CPU Idle
1.89s Time To Interactive
32s Visually Complete
64.67s Fully Loaded

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#6 LA REPUBBLICA
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.46s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
2.5s Visually Complete
2.89s First CPU Idle
2.89s Time To Interactive
17.06s Fully Loaded

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#7 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.46s Backend
1s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
2.06s First CPU Idle
2.06s Time To Interactive
3.4s Visually Complete
3.7s Last Painted Hero
12.48s Fully Loaded

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#8 EL PAIS
0.08s Backend
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.7s Visually Complete
6.52s First CPU Idle
6.52s Time To Interactive
20.32s Fully Loaded

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#9 T-ONLINE
0.08s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.67s Largest Contentful Paint
3.11s First CPU Idle
3.11s Time To Interactive
10.01s Fully Loaded
11s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.49s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.32s Largest Contentful Paint
2.58s First CPU Idle
2.58s Time To Interactive
3s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete
3.02s Fully Loaded

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#11 BILD.DE
0.09s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
4.05s First CPU Idle
4.05s Time To Interactive
4.8s Last Painted Hero
4.8s Visually Complete
4.82s Fully Loaded

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#12 IRISH TIMES
0.12s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
3.53s First CPU Idle
3.53s Time To Interactive
3.68s Fully Loaded
3.9s Last Painted Hero
3.9s Visually Complete

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#13 THE TELEGRAPH
0.35s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
4.2s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
5.12s First CPU Idle
5.12s Time To Interactive
12.28s Fully Loaded

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#14 LE FIGARO
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
3.94s First CPU Idle
3.94s Time To Interactive
4.2s Last Painted Hero
17.6s Visually Complete
22.69s Fully Loaded

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#15 BBC.CO.UK
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
3.34s Largest Contentful Paint
4.56s First CPU Idle
4.56s Time To Interactive
5s Fully Loaded
5.1s Last Painted Hero
5.1s Visually Complete

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