Michael Donohoe put together a neat leaderboard that shows news sites and their web performance metrics (including Google’s Core Web Vitals) so you can see how good and bad your favourite news outlets are for user experience.
This service exists to help product owners and developers alike monitor their own sites and benchmark against peers. It provides the insights needed to advocate for improvements, fostering a faster web and, by extension, a better user experience—especially for those where data is expensive or slow.
via the About section
At the time of writing, The Intercept is the best while The Straits Times is not (Rolling Stone is second to last). Of course, these metrics are synthetic so real user data could be different but given how news sites are built, I doubt they’ll be that far out. Kinda surprised The Independent isn’t on there. Their site is atrocious.
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