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
0.8s Start Render
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
13s Visually Complete
24.09s First CPU Idle
24.09s Time To Interactive
27.45s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.37s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Visually Complete
3s Last Painted Hero
4.92s First CPU Idle
4.92s Time To Interactive
12.89s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.53s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Visually Complete
16s First CPU Idle
16s Time To Interactive
25.71s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
2.33s Largest Contentful Paint
2.62s First CPU Idle
2.62s Time To Interactive
4.29s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
10.4s Visually Complete
15.91s First CPU Idle
15.91s Time To Interactive
118.11s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.15s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
4.62s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s First CPU Idle
9.1s Time To Interactive
10.23s Fully Loaded
13.6s Visually Complete

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#7 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Last Painted Hero
20.79s First CPU Idle
20.79s Time To Interactive
26.52s Fully Loaded
27s Visually Complete

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#8 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.96s Largest Contentful Paint
33.16s First CPU Idle
33.16s Time To Interactive
38.9s Last Painted Hero
38.9s Visually Complete
85.79s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.48s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.95s Largest Contentful Paint
4.3s Last Painted Hero
6.5s First CPU Idle
6.5s Time To Interactive
15s Visually Complete
17.12s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.18s Backend
1s Start Render
1.3s Largest Contentful Paint
4.42s First CPU Idle
4.42s Time To Interactive
4.78s Fully Loaded
4.8s Last Painted Hero
4.8s Visually Complete

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.89s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
15.47s First CPU Idle
38.74s Time To Interactive
64.6s Last Painted Hero
64.6s Visually Complete
71.49s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.64s Largest Contentful Paint
26.1s First CPU Idle
26.1s Time To Interactive
70.4s Last Painted Hero
70.4s Visually Complete
70.48s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.3s Start Render
2.85s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Last Painted Hero
37.4s First CPU Idle
37.4s Time To Interactive
99.2s Visually Complete
119.08s Fully Loaded

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#14 FORBES
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
17.4s Visually Complete
21s Last Painted Hero
33.49s First CPU Idle
33.49s Time To Interactive
55.82s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.26s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.32s Largest Contentful Paint
14s Last Painted Hero
18s Visually Complete
18.36s First CPU Idle
18.36s Time To Interactive
52.6s Fully Loaded

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#16 YAHOO NEWS
0.31s Backend
1s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
37s Visually Complete
37.94s Fully Loaded
40.31s First CPU Idle
40.31s Time To Interactive

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#17 NPR
0.33s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3.23s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
24.91s First CPU Idle
24.91s Time To Interactive
26.59s Fully Loaded

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