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
0.7s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
11.13s First CPU Idle
11.13s Time To Interactive
25.9s Visually Complete
28s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
2s Visually Complete
4.99s First CPU Idle
4.99s Time To Interactive
13.83s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.5s Visually Complete
1.53s Largest Contentful Paint
2.54s First CPU Idle
2.54s Time To Interactive
3.75s Fully Loaded

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#4 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
4.8s Visually Complete
4.97s Largest Contentful Paint
8.17s First CPU Idle
8.17s Time To Interactive
9.94s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.53s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Visually Complete
14.48s First CPU Idle
14.48s Time To Interactive
16.98s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.99s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
9.6s Visually Complete
13.6s First CPU Idle
13.6s Time To Interactive
27.48s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.2s Backend
1s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Last Painted Hero
8.9s Visually Complete
11.72s First CPU Idle
11.72s Time To Interactive
11.73s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
3.36s First CPU Idle
3.36s Time To Interactive
3.5s Last Painted Hero
3.5s Visually Complete
3.72s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.47s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.26s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Last Painted Hero
6.32s First CPU Idle
6.32s Time To Interactive
8s Visually Complete
24.16s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
4.9s Last Painted Hero
22.18s First CPU Idle
22.18s Time To Interactive
24s Visually Complete
26.85s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
10.5s Visually Complete
15.16s First CPU Idle
36.8s Last Painted Hero
36.89s Time To Interactive
56.15s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.11s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Last Painted Hero
30.49s First CPU Idle
41.92s Time To Interactive
83s Visually Complete
117.4s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.58s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
15.9s Visually Complete
22.99s First CPU Idle
22.99s Time To Interactive
65.31s Fully Loaded

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#14 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
14s Visually Complete
16s Last Painted Hero
34.61s First CPU Idle
75.77s Time To Interactive
119.36s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
1.7s Start Render
6.53s Largest Contentful Paint
18.8s Last Painted Hero
18.8s Visually Complete
22.81s First CPU Idle
22.81s Time To Interactive
41.07s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.24s Backend
0.9s Start Render
3.9s Largest Contentful Paint
20.31s First CPU Idle
20.31s Time To Interactive
20.5s Last Painted Hero
20.5s Visually Complete
27.44s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.22s Backend
1.2s Start Render
17.48s Largest Contentful Paint
18.1s Last Painted Hero
21.17s First CPU Idle
21.17s Time To Interactive
68s Visually Complete
81.92s Fully Loaded

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