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
0.6s Start Render
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
9.4s Visually Complete
15.67s First CPU Idle
15.67s Time To Interactive
57s Fully Loaded

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#2 POLITICO
0.11s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.64s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Visually Complete
13.1s First CPU Idle
13.1s Time To Interactive
32.17s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
19.01s First CPU Idle
19.01s Time To Interactive
51.61s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.29s Largest Contentful Paint
3.14s First CPU Idle
3.14s Time To Interactive
6.83s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
9.58s First CPU Idle
9.58s Time To Interactive
12.81s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
3.44s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Visually Complete
9.35s First CPU Idle
9.35s Time To Interactive
10.72s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.36s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
3.4s Visually Complete
3.46s First CPU Idle
3.46s Time To Interactive
12.73s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.21s Largest Contentful Paint
7.8s Last Painted Hero
7.8s Visually Complete
11.84s First CPU Idle
11.84s Time To Interactive
24.67s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.45s Backend
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
15.84s First CPU Idle
32.41s Time To Interactive
32.5s Visually Complete
47.36s Fully Loaded

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#10 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
11.39s First CPU Idle
11.39s Time To Interactive
34s Last Painted Hero
34s Visually Complete
54.31s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.06s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.99s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
21.16s First CPU Idle
21.16s Time To Interactive
26s Visually Complete
35.62s Fully Loaded

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#12 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
13s Visually Complete
14s Last Painted Hero
17.29s First CPU Idle
17.29s Time To Interactive
30.11s Fully Loaded

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#13 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
10.2s Largest Contentful Paint
11.7s Visually Complete
13.45s First CPU Idle
13.45s Time To Interactive
26.8s Last Painted Hero
31.27s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.5s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
10.25s First CPU Idle
16.55s Time To Interactive
55.34s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.14s Backend
1.5s Start Render
6.95s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Last Painted Hero
14.3s First CPU Idle
29s Visually Complete
30.53s Fully Loaded
30.99s Time To Interactive

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#16 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.15s Largest Contentful Paint
4.1s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
19.43s First CPU Idle
19.43s Time To Interactive
83.87s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3.02s Largest Contentful Paint
19.99s First CPU Idle
19.99s Time To Interactive
20.1s Last Painted Hero
20.1s Visually Complete
39.11s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.14s Backend
0.9s Start Render
3.15s Largest Contentful Paint
18.09s First CPU Idle
18.09s Time To Interactive
19s Last Painted Hero
19s Visually Complete
21.77s Fully Loaded

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