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
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
13.78s First CPU Idle
13.78s Time To Interactive
15.82s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.6s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
2.33s First CPU Idle
2.33s Time To Interactive
13.75s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
4.93s First CPU Idle
4.93s Time To Interactive
13.84s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.09s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.55s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Visually Complete
13.04s First CPU Idle
13.04s Time To Interactive
25.76s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.07s Backend
0.92s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
1s Last Painted Hero
9.4s Visually Complete
15.55s First CPU Idle
15.55s Time To Interactive
16.5s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
4.62s Largest Contentful Paint
8.84s First CPU Idle
8.84s Time To Interactive
10.69s Fully Loaded
14.4s Visually Complete

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#7 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
3.24s First CPU Idle
3.24s Time To Interactive
3.6s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete
3.61s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.19s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
6.16s First CPU Idle
6.16s Time To Interactive
7.6s Visually Complete
10.64s Fully Loaded

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#9 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.83s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
40.83s First CPU Idle
49.1s Last Painted Hero
91.02s Time To Interactive
111.93s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Last Painted Hero
24.61s First CPU Idle
24.61s Time To Interactive
29.58s Fully Loaded
32s Visually Complete

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#11 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.23s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.01s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
8.1s First CPU Idle
8.1s Time To Interactive
10s Visually Complete
25.94s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2.7s Start Render
2.74s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Last Painted Hero
16s Visually Complete
24.7s First CPU Idle
24.7s Time To Interactive
41.05s Fully Loaded

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#13 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
53.5s Visually Complete
59.66s First CPU Idle
76.35s Time To Interactive
119.11s Fully Loaded

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#14 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
23.51s First CPU Idle
52.71s Time To Interactive
102s Last Painted Hero
102s Visually Complete
102.62s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.19s Backend
1.2s Start Render
12.34s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
18.9s First CPU Idle
18.9s Time To Interactive
32s Visually Complete
52.53s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.12s Backend
0.9s Start Render
3.07s Largest Contentful Paint
17.86s First CPU Idle
17.86s Time To Interactive
19s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
21.26s Fully Loaded

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#17 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.83s Largest Contentful Paint
19.61s First CPU Idle
19.61s Time To Interactive
84.75s Fully Loaded
84.8s Last Painted Hero
84.8s Visually Complete

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