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		benbristow on June 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed Nice analysis. For BBC though it's somewhat unfair - outside of the UK you get redirected to BBC.com rather than BBC.co.uk as the BBC in the UK is a public service and funded via the national TV licence so the UK version doesn't have ads (just like the TV channels & radio stations). Would be interesting seeing a comparison using a VPN/proxy of the UK version vs .com/commercial version.

rjmunro on June 29, 2022 | [–]

Also they are testing the bbc.com home page, not bbc.com/news, which probably contains a lot of non-news. Certainly bbc.co.uk does.

brainwipe on June 29, 2022 | [–]

Quite right. BBC.co.uk is mostly edge cached. Lighthouse can't test that version because of the redirect.

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