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
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
19.22s First CPU Idle
19.22s Time To Interactive
84.01s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.7s Visually Complete
4.66s First CPU Idle
4.66s Time To Interactive
12.91s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.54s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Visually Complete
12.84s First CPU Idle
12.84s Time To Interactive
25.16s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.28s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
2.45s First CPU Idle
2.45s Time To Interactive
13.97s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.13s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
4.44s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Visually Complete
8.78s First CPU Idle
8.78s Time To Interactive
10.01s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Visually Complete
17s Last Painted Hero
31.38s First CPU Idle
31.38s Time To Interactive
65.66s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Last Painted Hero
7.6s Visually Complete
15.28s First CPU Idle
15.28s Time To Interactive
27.19s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.21s Backend
1s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
3.9s Last Painted Hero
4.89s First CPU Idle
4.89s Time To Interactive
7.5s Visually Complete
22.83s Fully Loaded

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#9 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
14.24s First CPU Idle
35.17s Time To Interactive
64.8s Last Painted Hero
64.8s Visually Complete
71.85s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
7.06s First CPU Idle
7.06s Time To Interactive
7.5s Last Painted Hero
14.4s Visually Complete
24.76s Fully Loaded

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#11 YAHOO NEWS
0.4s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.34s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
9.7s Visually Complete
16.41s First CPU Idle
16.41s Time To Interactive
18.19s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
30.43s First CPU Idle
30.43s Time To Interactive
37s Last Painted Hero
43s Visually Complete
116.2s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2.28s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Start Render
6.9s Last Painted Hero
12.4s Visually Complete
22.16s First CPU Idle
22.16s Time To Interactive
39.34s Fully Loaded

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.11s Largest Contentful Paint
4.7s Last Painted Hero
24.3s First CPU Idle
24.3s Time To Interactive
35s Visually Complete
100.69s Fully Loaded

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#15 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.47s Largest Contentful Paint
26.93s First CPU Idle
26.93s Time To Interactive
115s Last Painted Hero
115s Visually Complete
117.11s Fully Loaded

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#16 NEW YORK TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.3s Start Render
13.96s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
19.72s First CPU Idle
19.72s Time To Interactive
28s Visually Complete
43.92s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.29s Backend
0.9s Start Render
3.22s Largest Contentful Paint
17.15s First CPU Idle
17.15s Time To Interactive
17.6s Last Painted Hero
17.6s Visually Complete
30.96s Fully Loaded

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