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
0.5s Start Render
1.03s Largest Contentful Paint
7.2s Last Painted Hero
7.7s Visually Complete
11.34s First CPU Idle
11.34s Time To Interactive
16.69s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Visually Complete
3s Last Painted Hero
31.37s First CPU Idle
31.37s Time To Interactive
33.67s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.23s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
2.95s First CPU Idle
2.95s Time To Interactive
13.95s Fully Loaded

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#4 POLITICO
0.1s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.17s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
7.62s First CPU Idle
7.62s Time To Interactive
33.74s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
4.36s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
9.67s First CPU Idle
9.67s Time To Interactive
11.64s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
8.4s First CPU Idle
8.4s Time To Interactive
18.7s Visually Complete
28.91s Fully Loaded

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#7 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
14.77s First CPU Idle
14.77s Time To Interactive
19.4s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.33s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
8.2s Visually Complete
8.43s First CPU Idle
8.43s Time To Interactive
25.48s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.35s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
12.6s Visually Complete
17.46s First CPU Idle
17.46s Time To Interactive
23.42s Fully Loaded

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.3s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
4.7s Last Painted Hero
5.7s Visually Complete
5.87s First CPU Idle
5.87s Time To Interactive
119.04s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.19s Backend
1s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Last Painted Hero
5.2s Visually Complete
7.02s First CPU Idle
7.02s Time To Interactive
51.96s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
5.51s First CPU Idle
5.51s Time To Interactive
5.97s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Visually Complete
22s Last Painted Hero
35.29s Fully Loaded

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#13 FORBES
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Visually Complete
13s Last Painted Hero
16.71s First CPU Idle
16.71s Time To Interactive
28.24s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
4.77s Largest Contentful Paint
15.4s Visually Complete
18.46s First CPU Idle
18.46s Time To Interactive
48.43s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.17s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Last Painted Hero
16.33s First CPU Idle
28s Visually Complete
32.11s Time To Interactive
78.08s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.25s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
31.74s First CPU Idle
31.74s Time To Interactive
38s Visually Complete
118.51s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.78s Backend
1.5s Start Render
4.11s Largest Contentful Paint
17.52s First CPU Idle
17.52s Time To Interactive
19s Last Painted Hero
19s Visually Complete
27.75s Fully Loaded

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#18 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.66s Largest Contentful Paint
24.6s First CPU Idle
24.6s Time To Interactive
38.17s Fully Loaded
39.5s Last Painted Hero
39.5s Visually Complete

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