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 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.55s Largest Contentful Paint
1.49s First CPU Idle
1.49s Time To Interactive
1.5s Visually Complete
4.16s Fully Loaded

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#2 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
21.43s First CPU Idle
27.73s Time To Interactive
37.17s Fully Loaded

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#3 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Last Painted Hero
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
4.9s Visually Complete
31.72s First CPU Idle
31.72s Time To Interactive
56.26s Fully Loaded

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#4 FORBES
0.08s Backend
1s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s Visually Complete
9.5s Last Painted Hero
18.32s First CPU Idle
18.32s Time To Interactive
27.64s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete
11.25s First CPU Idle
11.25s Time To Interactive
13.9s Fully Loaded

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.59s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.43s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Visually Complete
24.76s First CPU Idle
36.76s Time To Interactive
60.68s Fully Loaded

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#7 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.6s Visually Complete
1.63s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s Last Painted Hero
23.83s First CPU Idle
23.83s Time To Interactive
32.94s Fully Loaded

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#8 POLITICO
0.1s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
1.91s Largest Contentful Paint
24.55s First CPU Idle
24.55s Time To Interactive
34.33s Fully Loaded

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#9 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
2.68s Largest Contentful Paint
3.77s First CPU Idle
3.77s Time To Interactive
14.34s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
7.47s First CPU Idle
7.47s Time To Interactive
9.4s Last Painted Hero
9.5s Visually Complete
25.31s Fully Loaded

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#11 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.44s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.29s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s First CPU Idle
2.6s Time To Interactive
3.24s Fully Loaded
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete

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#12 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.6s Start Render
4.2s Last Painted Hero
5.85s Largest Contentful Paint
9.95s First CPU Idle
9.95s Time To Interactive
34.5s Visually Complete
39.47s Fully Loaded

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#13 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.75s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
16s Visually Complete
27.38s First CPU Idle
27.38s Time To Interactive
119.77s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
1.48s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
10.7s Visually Complete
10.83s First CPU Idle
10.83s Time To Interactive
44.41s Fully Loaded

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#15 USA TODAY
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.99s Largest Contentful Paint
11.27s First CPU Idle
11.27s Time To Interactive
12s Visually Complete
119.19s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.9s Start Render
1.94s Largest Contentful Paint
16.41s First CPU Idle
16.41s Time To Interactive
17s Last Painted Hero
23s Visually Complete
37.49s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.12s Backend
1s Start Render
3.15s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
27.91s First CPU Idle
27.91s Time To Interactive
44.7s Visually Complete
46.4s Fully Loaded

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#18 NEW YORK TIMES
0.15s Backend
1.8s Start Render
7.14s Largest Contentful Paint
18s Last Painted Hero
19.97s First CPU Idle
19.97s Time To Interactive
20s Visually Complete
37.77s Fully Loaded

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#19 REUTERS
0.19s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Last Painted Hero
45.7s Visually Complete
46.09s First CPU Idle
46.09s Time To Interactive
52.93s Fully Loaded

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