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 SpeedIndex which is the average time at which visible parts of the page are displayed.

MEDIA SITES IN USA ON A DESKTOP FAST CONNECTION

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#1 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Visually Complete
9s Last Painted Hero
18.83s First CPU Idle
18.83s Time To Interactive
88.22s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
4.56s First CPU Idle
4.56s Time To Interactive
12.66s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.27s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s First CPU Idle
2.5s Time To Interactive
6.76s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
15.63s First CPU Idle
15.63s Time To Interactive
30s Visually Complete
31.13s Fully Loaded

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#5 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.28s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.73s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
4.2s First CPU Idle
4.2s Time To Interactive
14.59s Fully Loaded
18s Visually Complete

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.35s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
11.4s Visually Complete
15.11s First CPU Idle
15.11s Time To Interactive
16.98s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.13s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Largest Contentful Paint
8.35s First CPU Idle
8.35s Time To Interactive
9.71s Fully Loaded
12.7s Visually Complete

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#8 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Last Painted Hero
17.16s First CPU Idle
29.09s Time To Interactive
32s Visually Complete
95.71s Fully Loaded

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#9 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Visually Complete
8s Last Painted Hero
14.83s First CPU Idle
14.83s Time To Interactive
69.77s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
1s Start Render
1s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
8.54s First CPU Idle
8.54s Time To Interactive
40s Visually Complete
119.82s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
8.5s Visually Complete
13.59s First CPU Idle
13.59s Time To Interactive
55.21s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
11.87s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Visually Complete
15.74s First CPU Idle
15.74s Time To Interactive
29s Last Painted Hero
31.43s Fully Loaded

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#13 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.73s Largest Contentful Paint
14s Last Painted Hero
54.55s First CPU Idle
54.55s Time To Interactive
67s Visually Complete
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.1s Largest Contentful Paint
20.4s Last Painted Hero
20.4s Visually Complete
20.98s First CPU Idle
20.98s Time To Interactive
118.68s Fully Loaded

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#15 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
29.02s First CPU Idle
29.02s Time To Interactive
45s Visually Complete
61.59s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.22s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3.74s Largest Contentful Paint
23.4s Last Painted Hero
23.4s Visually Complete
29.37s First CPU Idle
29.37s Time To Interactive
68.84s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.18s Backend
1.9s Start Render
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
24.7s First CPU Idle
24.7s Time To Interactive
26s Visually Complete
56.96s Fully Loaded

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#18 POLITICO
0.1s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2s Last Painted Hero
2.02s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Visually Complete
15.89s First CPU Idle
15.89s Time To Interactive
33.93s Fully Loaded

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