BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world’s largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Fran Unsworth has been director of news and current affairs since January 2018.
Speed report
| Metric | Value | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Blocking Time | 0.23 seconds | 73 | 🟡 |
| Time it takes for a page to start working after it loads | |||
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0.30 | 40 | 🔴 |
| How much stuff moves around on a page after it loads | |||
| First Contentful Paint | 0.78 seconds | 95 | 🟢 |
| Time it takes for first piece of content to appear on a page | |||
| Speed Index | 3.42 seconds | 18 | 🔴 |
| Time it takes for a page to be visibly loaded | |||
| Largest Contenful Paint | 1.59 seconds | 77 | 🟡 |
| Time it takes for most of the content to appear on a page | |||
| Interactive | 4.07 seconds | 57 | 🟡 |
| Time it takes for links, buttons, and interactive features to begin working on a page | |||
This report was run on June 29, 2022 against www.bbc.com.
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