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
1.08s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Last Painted Hero
5.1s Visually Complete
10.49s First CPU Idle
10.49s Time To Interactive
16.51s Fully Loaded

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#2 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
0.92s Largest Contentful Paint
11.4s Visually Complete
26.66s First CPU Idle
31.81s Time To Interactive
56.55s Fully Loaded

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#3 FORBES
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
10.5s Last Painted Hero
15.25s First CPU Idle
15.25s Time To Interactive
28.21s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Visually Complete
2.4s Last Painted Hero
17.67s First CPU Idle
17.67s Time To Interactive
27.47s Fully Loaded

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#5 POLITICO
0.17s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
23.1s First CPU Idle
23.1s Time To Interactive
35.39s Fully Loaded

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#6 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.69s Largest Contentful Paint
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.7s Visually Complete
3.4s First CPU Idle
3.4s Time To Interactive
7.16s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2s Last Painted Hero
2.58s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Visually Complete
9.12s First CPU Idle
9.12s Time To Interactive
11.08s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.41s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.87s Largest Contentful Paint
2.54s First CPU Idle
2.54s Time To Interactive
3s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete
3.04s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
10s Last Painted Hero
10.1s Visually Complete
10.22s First CPU Idle
10.22s Time To Interactive
15.32s Fully Loaded

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#10 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.56s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Visually Complete
20.35s First CPU Idle
20.35s Time To Interactive
22.58s Fully Loaded

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#11 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Last Painted Hero
7.3s Visually Complete
10.61s First CPU Idle
10.61s Time To Interactive
25.3s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
25s Visually Complete
27.46s First CPU Idle
27.46s Time To Interactive
117.96s Fully Loaded

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#13 YAHOO NEWS
0.42s Backend
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
22.06s First CPU Idle
22.06s Time To Interactive
59.4s Visually Complete
73.52s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.11s Backend
1s Start Render
1.41s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
18.38s First CPU Idle
18.38s Time To Interactive
24.2s Visually Complete
43.48s Fully Loaded

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#15 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
11.35s First CPU Idle
11.35s Time To Interactive
12s Visually Complete
116.84s Fully Loaded

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#16 NEW YORK TIMES
0.13s Backend
1.4s Start Render
8.1s Largest Contentful Paint
12.56s First CPU Idle
14s Last Painted Hero
14s Visually Complete
31.03s Time To Interactive
32.48s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.19s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
16s Visually Complete
16.03s First CPU Idle
16.03s Time To Interactive
36.99s Fully Loaded

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#18 REUTERS
0.22s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.9s Last Painted Hero
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
31.85s First CPU Idle
31.85s Time To Interactive
41.7s Visually Complete
44.62s Fully Loaded

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#19 NPR
0.1s Backend
0.9s Start Render
3.3s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
27.21s First CPU Idle
27.21s Time To Interactive
70.4s Visually Complete
71.49s Fully Loaded

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