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
1.38s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
8.1s Visually Complete
11.53s First CPU Idle
11.53s Time To Interactive
15.3s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
2.5s Last Painted Hero
6.4s First CPU Idle
6.4s Time To Interactive
15.24s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
1.65s Largest Contentful Paint
1.96s First CPU Idle
1.96s Time To Interactive
3.79s Fully Loaded

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#4 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
3.67s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Visually Complete
8.02s First CPU Idle
8.02s Time To Interactive
9.81s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.56s Largest Contentful Paint
7.44s First CPU Idle
7.44s Time To Interactive
7.5s Visually Complete
23.62s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
18.93s First CPU Idle
18.93s Time To Interactive
28.2s Fully Loaded
32s Visually Complete

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.23s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
14s Visually Complete
27.82s First CPU Idle
27.82s Time To Interactive
29.52s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.03s Largest Contentful Paint
3.44s First CPU Idle
3.44s Time To Interactive
3.6s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete
3.81s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.17s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.5s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
13.1s Visually Complete
16.48s First CPU Idle
16.48s Time To Interactive
57.8s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.15s Backend
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
37.27s First CPU Idle
37.27s Time To Interactive
116.4s Fully Loaded
118s Visually Complete

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#11 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
3.27s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s Start Render
23s Last Painted Hero
28.06s First CPU Idle
28.06s Time To Interactive
46s Visually Complete
62.64s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.95s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
38.91s First CPU Idle
38.91s Time To Interactive
118.84s Fully Loaded
120.3s Visually Complete

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#13 NEW YORK TIMES
0.31s Backend
1.8s Start Render
12.3s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
20.89s First CPU Idle
20.89s Time To Interactive
56.56s Fully Loaded

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#14 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
6.5s Last Painted Hero
17.25s First CPU Idle
34.64s Time To Interactive
42.7s Visually Complete
119.34s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
15.27s First CPU Idle
15.27s Time To Interactive
90.16s Largest Contentful Paint
103.36s Fully Loaded
103.5s Last Painted Hero
103.5s Visually Complete

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#16 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.43s Largest Contentful Paint
3.7s Visually Complete
16.22s First CPU Idle
16.22s Time To Interactive
33.3s Fully Loaded

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#17 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.23s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.61s Largest Contentful Paint
5.2s Last Painted Hero
5.22s First CPU Idle
5.22s Time To Interactive
5.4s Visually Complete
10.94s Fully Loaded

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