News website performance
Monthly | Groups | Top 20
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News Netrics presents performance metrics for U.S daily newspapers websites. Every month we run Google’s PageSpeed Insights (PSI) mobile tests on three articles per paper, then average the results, for each publication and for all the publications.
The mean of the PSI scores (2020-09) for U.S. dailies was 23.3 .
Score: 90-100 (fast) 50-89 (average) 0-49 (slow) Latest PSI results
U.S. daily newspapers: average PSI results (
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Mean
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Median
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News Netrics categorizes publications by region (city, county, state), owner, and CMS (if known).
Explore data by category:
Most owners (62%) have just one daily newspaper (85% have 1–2). But most papers are run by a large publishing group: 14 owners, with >20 each, own 59% of U.S. dailies. And 6 owners (45+ each) control 40%.
BLOX is the most-used CMS (31%), with WordPress (16%) second and NewsCycle (14%) third. Arc papers have the best average Performance Score of the major CMSs, followed by Drupal , then BLOX.
Most U.S. counties (68%) have no daily newspaper. But most U.S. residents (72%) live in a county with one. See detailed circulation and population data for States , Counties and Cities . Or view them all in our USA Map .
Top 20 Scores
Congrats to the best-performing U.S. newspaper websites in 2020-09.(Table includes papers with >40K circulation, sorted by PSI score — average results of 3 articles per paper.)
Score: 90-100 (fast) 50-89 (average) 0-49 (slow) 0 papers scored better than "slow".
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54 queries took 0.160 seconds using 10.187 MB peak memory.
