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
1s Start Render
1.08s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Last Painted Hero
7.26s First CPU Idle
7.26s Time To Interactive
7.9s Visually Complete
16.79s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Visually Complete
2.7s Last Painted Hero
26.52s First CPU Idle
26.52s Time To Interactive
27.97s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.81s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Visually Complete
7.28s First CPU Idle
7.28s Time To Interactive
33.45s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.25s Largest Contentful Paint
3.03s First CPU Idle
3.03s Time To Interactive
6.6s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
9.43s First CPU Idle
9.43s Time To Interactive
18s Visually Complete
28.7s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.14s Backend
1.6s Start Render
3.1s Last Painted Hero
4.04s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
10.1s First CPU Idle
10.1s Time To Interactive
11.4s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
7.7s Last Painted Hero
7.7s Visually Complete
8.36s First CPU Idle
8.36s Time To Interactive
24.6s Fully Loaded

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#8 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
7.12s First CPU Idle
7.12s Time To Interactive
36.4s Last Painted Hero
36.4s Visually Complete
52.11s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.26s Backend
1s Start Render
1.65s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
6.6s Visually Complete
6.83s First CPU Idle
6.83s Time To Interactive
24.9s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
1s Start Render
1.04s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Last Painted Hero
5.4s Visually Complete
14.42s First CPU Idle
14.42s Time To Interactive
56.2s Fully Loaded

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#11 YAHOO NEWS
0.37s Backend
1s Start Render
1.5s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
18.17s First CPU Idle
34.6s Visually Complete
34.76s Time To Interactive
35.66s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.65s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
11.8s Visually Complete
14.3s First CPU Idle
14.3s Time To Interactive
55.23s Fully Loaded

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#13 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
9.36s Largest Contentful Paint
11.64s First CPU Idle
11.64s Time To Interactive
27s Last Painted Hero
31.84s Fully Loaded
33s Visually Complete

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#14 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.04s Largest Contentful Paint
3.9s Last Painted Hero
30.89s First CPU Idle
37.22s Time To Interactive
38s Visually Complete
116.02s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.19s Backend
1.8s Start Render
7.72s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
15.49s First CPU Idle
15.49s Time To Interactive
27s Visually Complete
36.63s Fully Loaded

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#16 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
36.98s First CPU Idle
36.98s Time To Interactive
43s Visually Complete
45.42s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
2.3s Start Render
2.75s Largest Contentful Paint
19.8s Last Painted Hero
19.8s Visually Complete
20.67s First CPU Idle
20.67s Time To Interactive
50.83s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.17s Backend
1s Start Render
3.65s Largest Contentful Paint
11.62s First CPU Idle
11.62s Time To Interactive
18s Last Painted Hero
18s Visually Complete
27.86s Fully Loaded

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