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
6.4s Last Painted Hero
6.4s Visually Complete
12.05s First CPU Idle
12.05s Time To Interactive
16.85s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.08s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
2.35s First CPU Idle
2.35s Time To Interactive
4.14s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.9s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.01s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Visually Complete
3.2s Last Painted Hero
5.73s First CPU Idle
5.73s Time To Interactive
13.55s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.46s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Visually Complete
11.7s First CPU Idle
11.7s Time To Interactive
25.55s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.09s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Last Painted Hero
6.8s Visually Complete
9.15s First CPU Idle
9.15s Time To Interactive
26.21s Fully Loaded

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.16s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
8.3s Visually Complete
11.29s First CPU Idle
11.29s Time To Interactive
13.67s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.23s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.88s Largest Contentful Paint
4.1s Last Painted Hero
4.98s First CPU Idle
4.98s Time To Interactive
6.5s Visually Complete
22.82s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
1s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
3.98s First CPU Idle
3.98s Time To Interactive
4.4s Last Painted Hero
4.4s Visually Complete
4.41s Fully Loaded

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#9 ESPN
0.14s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.93s Largest Contentful Paint
3.1s Last Painted Hero
10.6s First CPU Idle
10.6s Time To Interactive
11s Visually Complete
12.4s Fully Loaded

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#10 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.3s Largest Contentful Paint
31.14s First CPU Idle
31.14s Time To Interactive
36.3s Last Painted Hero
36.3s Visually Complete
84.87s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
7.8s Visually Complete
19.31s First CPU Idle
40.02s Time To Interactive
66.32s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2s Start Render
2.01s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
14.8s Visually Complete
21.41s First CPU Idle
21.41s Time To Interactive
40.87s Fully Loaded

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#13 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
4.1s Last Painted Hero
33.01s First CPU Idle
33.01s Time To Interactive
57.51s Fully Loaded
58s Visually Complete

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#14 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.89s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
15s Visually Complete
16s Last Painted Hero
25.56s First CPU Idle
67.76s Time To Interactive
82.83s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.24s Backend
1.3s Start Render
11.55s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
18.8s First CPU Idle
18.8s Time To Interactive
29s Visually Complete
53.74s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
3.14s Largest Contentful Paint
16.98s First CPU Idle
16.98s Time To Interactive
17.8s Last Painted Hero
17.8s Visually Complete
31.6s Fully Loaded

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#17 WASHINGTON POST
0.11s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.63s Largest Contentful Paint
26.27s First CPU Idle
26.27s Time To Interactive
35.5s Last Painted Hero
35.5s Visually Complete
53.14s Fully Loaded

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