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
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.78s Largest Contentful Paint
1.83s First CPU Idle
1.83s Time To Interactive
30s Visually Complete
64.5s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.CO.UK
0.08s Backend
0.6s Start Render
4.34s Largest Contentful Paint
5.34s First CPU Idle
5.34s Time To Interactive
5.74s Fully Loaded
5.8s Last Painted Hero
5.8s Visually Complete

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#3 DER SPIEGEL
0.08s Backend
0.53s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Start Render
1.77s First CPU Idle
1.77s Time To Interactive
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
3.39s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE GUARDIAN
0.11s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.87s Largest Contentful Paint
1.95s First CPU Idle
1.95s Time To Interactive
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.27s Fully Loaded

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#5 T-ONLINE
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
3.45s First CPU Idle
3.45s Time To Interactive
3.7s Fully Loaded
3.9s Last Painted Hero
3.9s Visually Complete

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#6 LE MONDE
0.11s Backend
0.63s Largest Contentful Paint
0.7s Start Render
0.79s First CPU Idle
0.79s Time To Interactive
0.8s Last Painted Hero
1s Visually Complete
1.65s Fully Loaded

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#7 THE TELEGRAPH
0.34s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s First CPU Idle
5.1s Time To Interactive
5.1s Last Painted Hero
5.1s Visually Complete
13.05s Fully Loaded

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#8 NOVINSKY.CZ
0.45s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
2.02s First CPU Idle
2.02s Time To Interactive
3.7s Last Painted Hero
3.7s Visually Complete
12.37s Fully Loaded

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#9 LA REPUBBLICA
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
2.45s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
2.5s Visually Complete
2.89s First CPU Idle
2.89s Time To Interactive
17.19s Fully Loaded

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#10 BILD.DE
0.18s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
4.82s First CPU Idle
4.82s Time To Interactive
5.6s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
5.66s Fully Loaded

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#11 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
1.83s First CPU Idle
1.83s Time To Interactive
2.5s Visually Complete
2.59s Fully Loaded
2.6s Last Painted Hero

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#12 PRAVDA
0.76s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.42s Largest Contentful Paint
1.53s First CPU Idle
1.53s Time To Interactive
2.62s Fully Loaded
6.9s Visually Complete

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#13 IRISH TIMES
5.68s Backend
6.2s Start Render
6.62s Largest Contentful Paint
9s First CPU Idle
9s Time To Interactive
9.08s Fully Loaded
9.3s Last Painted Hero
9.4s Visually Complete

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#14 EL PAIS
0.17s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.7s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete
6.81s First CPU Idle
6.81s Time To Interactive
20.62s Fully Loaded

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#15 LE FIGARO
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
2.85s First CPU Idle
2.85s Time To Interactive
3.2s Last Painted Hero
3.5s Visually Complete
22.14s Fully Loaded

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