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 Start Render which is when the first non-white content is painted in the browser.

MEDIA SITES IN EUROPE ON A DESKTOP FAST CONNECTION

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#1 RADIO FREE EUROPE
0.12s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
1.69s First CPU Idle
1.69s Time To Interactive
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
3.31s Fully Loaded

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#2 IRISH TIMES
0.08s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
3.46s First CPU Idle
3.46s Time To Interactive
3.55s Fully Loaded
3.7s Last Painted Hero
3.7s Visually Complete

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#3 BBC.CO.UK
0.08s Backend
0.5s Start Render
3.34s Largest Contentful Paint
4.95s First CPU Idle
4.95s Time To Interactive
5s Last Painted Hero
5s Visually Complete
5.03s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE GUARDIAN
0.08s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
1.83s First CPU Idle
1.83s Time To Interactive
2s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
2.17s Fully Loaded

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#5 EL PAIS
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.72s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
6.57s First CPU Idle
6.57s Time To Interactive
20.26s Fully Loaded

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#6 LA REPUBBLICA
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.78s Largest Contentful Paint
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
3.44s First CPU Idle
3.44s Time To Interactive
17.45s Fully Loaded

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#7 T-ONLINE
0.07s Backend
0.68s Largest Contentful Paint
0.7s Start Render
3.37s First CPU Idle
3.37s Time To Interactive
10.05s Fully Loaded
11s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete

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#8 DER SPIEGEL
0.08s Backend
0.64s Largest Contentful Paint
0.7s Start Render
1.98s First CPU Idle
1.98s Time To Interactive
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
3.49s Fully Loaded

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#9 LE MONDE
0.17s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
1.18s First CPU Idle
1.18s Time To Interactive
2s Visually Complete
2.1s Fully Loaded

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#10 BILD.DE
0.11s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.89s Largest Contentful Paint
4.99s First CPU Idle
4.99s Time To Interactive
5.6s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
7.09s Fully Loaded

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#11 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.42s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.87s First CPU Idle
1.87s Time To Interactive
3.16s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s Visually Complete
3.4s Last Painted Hero
12.34s Fully Loaded

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#12 LE FIGARO
0.17s Backend
1s Start Render
1.55s Largest Contentful Paint
4.14s First CPU Idle
4.14s Time To Interactive
4.2s Last Painted Hero
4.4s Visually Complete
22.66s Fully Loaded

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#13 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.44s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.89s Largest Contentful Paint
4.22s First CPU Idle
4.22s Time To Interactive
4.3s Last Painted Hero
4.3s Visually Complete
9.37s Fully Loaded

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#14 PRAVDA
0.64s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.23s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.46s First CPU Idle
1.46s Time To Interactive
5.61s Fully Loaded
6.4s Visually Complete

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#15 THE TELEGRAPH
1.02s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Last Painted Hero
5.7s Visually Complete
6.58s First CPU Idle
6.58s Time To Interactive
20.75s Fully Loaded

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