BBC News Speed Report

Overall speed score of 64 out of 100. That's not great.

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

MetricValueScore
Total Blocking Time0.23 seconds73🟡
Time it takes for a page to start working after it loads
Cumulative Layout Shift0.3040🔴
How much stuff moves around on a page after it loads
First Contentful Paint0.78 seconds95🟢
Time it takes for first piece of content to appear on a page
Speed Index3.42 seconds18🔴
Time it takes for a page to be visibly loaded
Largest Contenful Paint1.59 seconds77🟡
Time it takes for most of the content to appear on a page
Interactive4.07 seconds57🟡
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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