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
0.9s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.5s Visually Complete
19.64s First CPU Idle
19.64s Time To Interactive
27.18s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.37s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Visually Complete
2.6s Last Painted Hero
20.64s First CPU Idle
20.64s Time To Interactive
23.64s Fully Loaded

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#3 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
9.47s First CPU Idle
9.47s Time To Interactive
13.1s Fully Loaded

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#4 POLITICO
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
12.76s First CPU Idle
12.76s Time To Interactive
33.07s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.29s Largest Contentful Paint
2.98s First CPU Idle
2.98s Time To Interactive
4.06s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.5s Last Painted Hero
3.35s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Visually Complete
8.84s First CPU Idle
8.84s Time To Interactive
10.34s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.86s Largest Contentful Paint
7.84s First CPU Idle
7.84s Time To Interactive
8.2s Last Painted Hero
8.2s Visually Complete
25.02s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.49s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.57s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
13.2s Visually Complete
15.94s First CPU Idle
15.94s Time To Interactive
22.15s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
8.2s Visually Complete
16.6s First CPU Idle
16.6s Time To Interactive
54.29s Fully Loaded

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#10 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
12s Last Painted Hero
12s Visually Complete
15.54s First CPU Idle
15.54s Time To Interactive
28.69s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.16s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
22.26s First CPU Idle
22.26s Time To Interactive
29.5s Visually Complete
115.71s Fully Loaded

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#12 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
12.77s First CPU Idle
38.1s Visually Complete
40.79s Time To Interactive
57.44s Fully Loaded

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#13 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
3.9s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
20.18s First CPU Idle
20.18s Time To Interactive
39.76s Fully Loaded

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#14 FINANCIAL TIMES
2.65s Backend
3.6s Start Render
4.08s Largest Contentful Paint
7.8s Last Painted Hero
8.4s Visually Complete
8.68s First CPU Idle
8.68s Time To Interactive
16.14s Fully Loaded

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#15 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
11.19s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Visually Complete
13.98s First CPU Idle
13.98s Time To Interactive
27s Last Painted Hero
31.4s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
2.1s Start Render
18.07s First CPU Idle
18.07s Time To Interactive
18.1s Last Painted Hero
18.1s Visually Complete
18.11s Largest Contentful Paint
38.07s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.14s Backend
1.6s Start Render
8.66s Largest Contentful Paint
11.5s Last Painted Hero
14.37s First CPU Idle
24s Visually Complete
31.81s Time To Interactive
76.51s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.1s Backend
1s Start Render
4.06s Largest Contentful Paint
19.52s First CPU Idle
19.52s Time To Interactive
20s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
23.84s Fully Loaded

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