SpeedCurve

Page Speed Benchmarks

Page speed has a huge impact on user experience. Faster sites have been proven to have lower bounce rates, higher conversion rates, bigger shopping cart sizes, and happier users. In these dashboards, we rank industry-leading websites based on how fast their pages appear to load, from a user’s perspective. For each site, click through to see their detailed test results.

Desktop Fast - Tested every day in Chrome with a fast connection (80Mbps/40Mbps 10ms RTT). Sites are sorted by Cumulative Layout Shift which is a score based on how often users experience unexpected layout shifts. Sites should aim for a score of less than 0.1

MEDIA SITES IN USA ON A DESKTOP FAST CONNECTION

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#1 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
7.1s Visually Complete
7.82s First CPU Idle
7.82s Time To Interactive
13.87s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.11s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
5.82s First CPU Idle
5.82s Time To Interactive
14.38s Fully Loaded

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#3 CNN
0.06s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.59s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
18.34s First CPU Idle
18.34s Time To Interactive
105s Visually Complete
119.42s Fully Loaded

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#4 YAHOO NEWS
0.17s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.03s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Last Painted Hero
18.99s First CPU Idle
18.99s Time To Interactive
52.1s Visually Complete
58.4s Fully Loaded

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#5 NPR
0.1s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.88s Largest Contentful Paint
16.28s First CPU Idle
16.28s Time To Interactive
16.5s Last Painted Hero
16.5s Visually Complete
26.12s Fully Loaded

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#6 WASHINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
7.42s First CPU Idle
7.42s Time To Interactive
7.5s Last Painted Hero
25.91s Fully Loaded

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#7 BLOOMBERG
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
13.06s First CPU Idle
13.06s Time To Interactive
13.3s Last Painted Hero
13.3s Visually Complete
117.25s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.26s Backend
1s Start Render
1.42s Largest Contentful Paint
2.18s First CPU Idle
2.18s Time To Interactive
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
2.96s Fully Loaded

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#9 BUZZFEED
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
14.65s First CPU Idle
14.65s Time To Interactive
15.4s Visually Complete
19.09s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.99s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Visually Complete
22.2s First CPU Idle
22.2s Time To Interactive
86.64s Fully Loaded

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#11 POLITICO
0.11s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.73s Largest Contentful Paint
9.03s First CPU Idle
9.03s Time To Interactive
9.1s Visually Complete
17.85s Fully Loaded

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#12 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
6.2s Visually Complete
7.85s First CPU Idle
7.85s Time To Interactive
15.73s Fully Loaded

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#13 NEW YORK TIMES
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
4.92s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
9.77s First CPU Idle
9.77s Time To Interactive
13s Visually Complete
27.87s Fully Loaded

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#14 ESPN
0.06s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.54s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
7.2s Visually Complete
12.01s First CPU Idle
12.01s Time To Interactive
17.97s Fully Loaded

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#15 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.3s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.43s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Visually Complete
9.96s First CPU Idle
9.96s Time To Interactive
20.91s Fully Loaded

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#16 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.84s Largest Contentful Paint
4.3s Visually Complete
5.99s First CPU Idle
5.99s Time To Interactive
62.16s Fully Loaded

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#17 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.68s Largest Contentful Paint
0.7s Start Render
10.5s Visually Complete
10.7s Last Painted Hero
16.11s First CPU Idle
16.11s Time To Interactive
119.34s Fully Loaded

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