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
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
1.23s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Visually Complete
16.31s First CPU Idle
16.31s Time To Interactive
19.4s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.34s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
10.51s First CPU Idle
10.51s Time To Interactive
14.79s Fully Loaded

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#3 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.56s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Visually Complete
8.44s First CPU Idle
8.44s Time To Interactive
13.86s Fully Loaded

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#4 NPR
0.44s Backend
1.1s Start Render
4.03s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
16.9s First CPU Idle
16.9s Time To Interactive
17.1s Visually Complete
27.02s Fully Loaded

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#5 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
2.8s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete
4.69s First CPU Idle
4.69s Time To Interactive
63.44s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.38s Backend
1s Start Render
1.79s Largest Contentful Paint
2.66s First CPU Idle
2.66s Time To Interactive
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
4.2s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
5.86s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Visually Complete
12.69s First CPU Idle
12.69s Time To Interactive
18.51s Fully Loaded

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#8 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.08s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
7.75s First CPU Idle
7.75s Time To Interactive
11.63s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
4.2s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
6.06s First CPU Idle
6.06s Time To Interactive
8.79s Fully Loaded

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#10 YAHOO NEWS
0.36s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
18.89s First CPU Idle
32.16s Time To Interactive
33s Visually Complete
57.05s Fully Loaded

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#11 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.65s Largest Contentful Paint
6.9s Last Painted Hero
6.9s Visually Complete
11.41s First CPU Idle
11.41s Time To Interactive
22.19s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
8.22s Largest Contentful Paint
12.73s First CPU Idle
12.73s Time To Interactive
24.2s Last Painted Hero
24.2s Visually Complete
31.47s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Visually Complete
7s Last Painted Hero
8.83s First CPU Idle
8.83s Time To Interactive
37.13s Fully Loaded

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.23s Largest Contentful Paint
3.6s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete
15.62s First CPU Idle
15.62s Time To Interactive
119.62s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
1.3s Start Render
9.25s Largest Contentful Paint
11.3s First CPU Idle
11.3s Time To Interactive
11.8s Last Painted Hero
11.8s Visually Complete
115.42s Fully Loaded

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#16 NEW YORK TIMES
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
5.47s Largest Contentful Paint
13.56s First CPU Idle
13.56s Time To Interactive
41s Last Painted Hero
42s Visually Complete
75.62s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.06s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.5s Last Painted Hero
2.56s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Visually Complete
41.35s First CPU Idle
41.35s Time To Interactive
118.07s Fully Loaded

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