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
0.6s Start Render
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
6s Visually Complete
24.39s First CPU Idle
24.39s Time To Interactive
117.4s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
1.66s Largest Contentful Paint
2s First CPU Idle
2s Time To Interactive
3.81s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.81s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
4.38s First CPU Idle
4.38s Time To Interactive
6.77s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.51s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Visually Complete
6.61s First CPU Idle
6.61s Time To Interactive
24.43s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.1s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
4.83s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Visually Complete
8.74s First CPU Idle
8.74s Time To Interactive
10.7s Fully Loaded

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.18s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
8.9s Visually Complete
11.8s First CPU Idle
11.8s Time To Interactive
11.87s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.56s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
8.3s Visually Complete
15.56s First CPU Idle
39.15s Time To Interactive
54.2s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
3.56s First CPU Idle
3.56s Time To Interactive
3.8s Last Painted Hero
3.8s Visually Complete
3.86s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.25s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
12s Visually Complete
36.62s First CPU Idle
87.95s Time To Interactive
93.27s Fully Loaded

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#10 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.78s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
27.49s First CPU Idle
75s Last Painted Hero
79.93s Time To Interactive
113.11s Fully Loaded

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#11 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.18s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
35.86s First CPU Idle
35.86s Time To Interactive
66.6s Fully Loaded

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#12 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Visually Complete
26.61s First CPU Idle
100.07s Time To Interactive
120.1s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.11s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
55.02s First CPU Idle
81.61s Time To Interactive
82.06s Fully Loaded
82.2s Last Painted Hero
82.2s Visually Complete

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#14 CNN
0.08s Backend
1s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
55.37s First CPU Idle
55.37s Time To Interactive
93s Visually Complete
119.62s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.3s Start Render
17.55s Largest Contentful Paint
18s Last Painted Hero
21.41s First CPU Idle
21.41s Time To Interactive
70.7s Visually Complete
120.78s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
13.64s First CPU Idle
13.64s Time To Interactive
83.52s Largest Contentful Paint
96.49s Fully Loaded
96.9s Last Painted Hero
96.9s Visually Complete

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