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
1s Last Painted Hero
1.13s First CPU Idle
1.13s Time To Interactive
1.3s Visually Complete
2.13s Fully Loaded

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#2 PRAVDA
0.7s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Last Painted Hero
1.47s First CPU Idle
1.47s Time To Interactive
4.5s Fully Loaded
6.6s Visually Complete

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#3 DER SPIEGEL
0.08s Backend
0.52s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Start Render
1.88s First CPU Idle
1.88s Time To Interactive
2s Last Painted Hero
2s Visually Complete
3.37s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE GUARDIAN
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
1.87s First CPU Idle
1.87s Time To Interactive
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.29s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA REPUBBLICA
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.2s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.63s First CPU Idle
2.63s Time To Interactive
16.88s Fully Loaded

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#6 EL PAIS
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.72s Largest Contentful Paint
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
6.61s First CPU Idle
6.61s Time To Interactive
20.36s Fully Loaded

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#7 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.4s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
1.84s First CPU Idle
1.84s Time To Interactive
3.4s Last Painted Hero
3.7s Visually Complete
12.29s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.4s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.01s Largest Contentful Paint
2.48s First CPU Idle
2.48s Time To Interactive
2.92s Fully Loaded
3s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete

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#9 LE FIGARO
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
3.89s First CPU Idle
3.89s Time To Interactive
4s Last Painted Hero
4.6s Visually Complete
22.62s Fully Loaded

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#10 T-ONLINE
0.09s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.86s Largest Contentful Paint
2.94s First CPU Idle
2.94s Time To Interactive
9.84s Fully Loaded
11s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete

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#11 RADIO FREE EUROPE
0.09s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.85s First CPU Idle
1.85s Time To Interactive
1.93s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Visually Complete
64.59s Fully Loaded

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#12 IRISH TIMES
0.1s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
3.44s First CPU Idle
3.44s Time To Interactive
3.51s Fully Loaded
3.8s Last Painted Hero
3.8s Visually Complete

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#13 BILD.DE
0.1s Backend
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
4.88s First CPU Idle
4.88s Time To Interactive
5.6s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
5.67s Fully Loaded

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#14 BBC.CO.UK
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
3.23s Largest Contentful Paint
4.45s First CPU Idle
4.45s Time To Interactive
4.9s Fully Loaded
5s Last Painted Hero
5s Visually Complete

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#15 THE TELEGRAPH
0.46s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Last Painted Hero
6.92s First CPU Idle
6.92s Time To Interactive
14s Visually Complete
118.37s Fully Loaded

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