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
0.5s Start Render
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Last Painted Hero
5.1s Visually Complete
16.14s First CPU Idle
16.14s Time To Interactive
82.01s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
1s Start Render
1.04s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
8.04s First CPU Idle
8.04s Time To Interactive
9.5s Visually Complete
27.78s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.52s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Visually Complete
12.73s First CPU Idle
12.73s Time To Interactive
16.78s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.75s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
2.5s Visually Complete
4.36s First CPU Idle
4.36s Time To Interactive
12.8s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.4s Last Painted Hero
2.4s Visually Complete
2.43s Largest Contentful Paint
2.47s First CPU Idle
2.47s Time To Interactive
14.11s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.13s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.8s Last Painted Hero
4.45s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Visually Complete
8.59s First CPU Idle
8.59s Time To Interactive
10.08s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.37s Backend
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
10.9s Visually Complete
17.76s First CPU Idle
17.76s Time To Interactive
19.23s Fully Loaded

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#8 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
1.23s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Visually Complete
15.3s First CPU Idle
15.3s Time To Interactive
17.31s Fully Loaded

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#9 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Visually Complete
17s Last Painted Hero
30.74s First CPU Idle
30.74s Time To Interactive
49.36s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
4.1s Last Painted Hero
19.55s First CPU Idle
19.55s Time To Interactive
54.35s Fully Loaded
55.3s Visually Complete

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#11 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.74s Largest Contentful Paint
32.05s First CPU Idle
32.05s Time To Interactive
35s Last Painted Hero
35s Visually Complete
115.99s Fully Loaded

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#12 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.23s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.31s Largest Contentful Paint
4.6s Last Painted Hero
5.17s First CPU Idle
5.17s Time To Interactive
15.78s Fully Loaded
16s Visually Complete

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#13 USA TODAY
0.08s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Visually Complete
19.89s First CPU Idle
19.89s Time To Interactive
62.98s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.41s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
16.68s First CPU Idle
16.68s Time To Interactive
42.2s Visually Complete
50.88s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.1s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.65s Largest Contentful Paint
13.03s First CPU Idle
13.03s Time To Interactive
16.3s Last Painted Hero
16.3s Visually Complete
30.87s Fully Loaded

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#16 NEW YORK TIMES
0.15s Backend
1.1s Start Render
13.26s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
21.52s First CPU Idle
21.52s Time To Interactive
29s Visually Complete
52.13s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
2.79s Backend
4.89s Largest Contentful Paint
4.9s Start Render
8.4s Last Painted Hero
23.3s First CPU Idle
23.3s Time To Interactive
56s Visually Complete
120s Fully Loaded

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