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
0.08s Backend
1s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Last Painted Hero
6.3s Visually Complete
11.57s First CPU Idle
11.57s Time To Interactive
16.3s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
2.1s Last Painted Hero
6.64s First CPU Idle
6.64s Time To Interactive
15.51s Fully Loaded

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#3 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
4.32s Largest Contentful Paint
4.7s Visually Complete
8.4s First CPU Idle
8.4s Time To Interactive
9.93s Fully Loaded

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#4 YAHOO NEWS
0.22s Backend
1s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Visually Complete
9s Last Painted Hero
21.22s First CPU Idle
21.22s Time To Interactive
24.89s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.92s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Visually Complete
2.3s First CPU Idle
2.3s Time To Interactive
4.05s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.57s Largest Contentful Paint
5.2s Visually Complete
6.03s First CPU Idle
6.03s Time To Interactive
24.02s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.07s Backend
2.1s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
14.19s First CPU Idle
14.19s Time To Interactive
28.15s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
3.51s First CPU Idle
3.51s Time To Interactive
4s Last Painted Hero
4s Visually Complete
4.04s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.2s Start Render
7.82s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s Last Painted Hero
35.53s First CPU Idle
35.53s Time To Interactive
44s Visually Complete
119.02s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.18s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
5.22s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Visually Complete
16.71s First CPU Idle
16.71s Time To Interactive
47.72s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
8.1s Visually Complete
14.09s First CPU Idle
32.73s Time To Interactive
119.75s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.16s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Last Painted Hero
39.39s First CPU Idle
40s Visually Complete
106.96s Time To Interactive
119.95s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2s Start Render
6.81s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
35.67s First CPU Idle
35.67s Time To Interactive
119.55s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.27s Backend
1.6s Start Render
18.48s Largest Contentful Paint
29.01s First CPU Idle
29.01s Time To Interactive
39s Visually Complete
61.5s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.12s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.3s Largest Contentful Paint
13.71s First CPU Idle
13.71s Time To Interactive
64.88s Fully Loaded
65.1s Last Painted Hero
65.1s Visually Complete

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