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
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
6s Last Painted Hero
28.51s First CPU Idle
28.51s Time To Interactive
29.4s Visually Complete
36.7s Fully Loaded

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#2 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.22s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
2.7s Visually Complete
9.16s First CPU Idle
9.16s Time To Interactive
16.75s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.38s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Visually Complete
2.5s Last Painted Hero
17.58s First CPU Idle
17.58s Time To Interactive
20.1s Fully Loaded

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#4 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.72s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
19.81s First CPU Idle
19.81s Time To Interactive
25.51s Fully Loaded

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#5 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
12.7s Visually Complete
18.73s First CPU Idle
18.73s Time To Interactive
26.1s Fully Loaded

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#6 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.82s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
2.95s First CPU Idle
2.95s Time To Interactive
6.81s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.1s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
4.27s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Visually Complete
8.63s First CPU Idle
8.63s Time To Interactive
10.51s Fully Loaded

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#8 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
4.6s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
8.75s First CPU Idle
8.75s Time To Interactive
74.17s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.37s Backend
1s Start Render
1.21s Largest Contentful Paint
2.26s First CPU Idle
2.26s Time To Interactive
2.77s Fully Loaded
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete

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#10 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
8.7s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
11.27s First CPU Idle
11.27s Time To Interactive
15.37s Fully Loaded

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#11 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Largest Contentful Paint
0.5s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
13.51s First CPU Idle
13.51s Time To Interactive
22s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
21.65s First CPU Idle
21.65s Time To Interactive
32.9s Last Painted Hero
32.9s Visually Complete
50.38s Fully Loaded

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#13 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.87s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Visually Complete
14s Last Painted Hero
15.02s First CPU Idle
15.02s Time To Interactive
43.53s Fully Loaded

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#14 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.62s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
35.14s First CPU Idle
46.03s Time To Interactive
55s Visually Complete
118.56s Fully Loaded

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#15 YAHOO NEWS
0.84s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.98s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
24.9s First CPU Idle
35.04s Time To Interactive
36s Visually Complete
63.2s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2.2s Start Render
4.08s Largest Contentful Paint
14.95s First CPU Idle
14.95s Time To Interactive
15s Last Painted Hero
44.1s Visually Complete
119.61s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
3.53s Largest Contentful Paint
19s Last Painted Hero
21.3s Visually Complete
23.68s First CPU Idle
30.89s Time To Interactive
31.12s Fully Loaded

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#18 NEW YORK TIMES
0.11s Backend
1.2s Start Render
5.59s Largest Contentful Paint
14.13s First CPU Idle
14.13s Time To Interactive
15s Last Painted Hero
32.9s Visually Complete
54.04s Fully Loaded

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