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
0.8s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Visually Complete
7.8s Last Painted Hero
16.08s First CPU Idle
16.08s Time To Interactive
34.78s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.27s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.5s Visually Complete
4.69s First CPU Idle
4.69s Time To Interactive
13.82s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Visually Complete
1.77s Largest Contentful Paint
2.15s First CPU Idle
2.15s Time To Interactive
3.83s Fully Loaded

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#4 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.6s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
4.5s Visually Complete
4.51s Largest Contentful Paint
8.11s First CPU Idle
8.11s Time To Interactive
9.92s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.68s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Visually Complete
15.32s First CPU Idle
39.33s Time To Interactive
92.69s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.7s Last Painted Hero
0.72s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Visually Complete
6.58s First CPU Idle
6.58s Time To Interactive
24.4s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.19s Backend
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
8.9s Visually Complete
11.56s First CPU Idle
11.56s Time To Interactive
11.6s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
3.29s First CPU Idle
3.29s Time To Interactive
3.8s Last Painted Hero
3.8s Visually Complete
4.03s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.15s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.31s Largest Contentful Paint
14.3s Visually Complete
17.98s First CPU Idle
39.96s Time To Interactive
109.39s Fully Loaded

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#10 NPR
0.26s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.47s Largest Contentful Paint
24.62s First CPU Idle
71.72s Time To Interactive
73s Visually Complete
82.2s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.78s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
16.39s First CPU Idle
66.4s Time To Interactive
67s Last Painted Hero
102.27s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
0.16s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Last Painted Hero
40.5s First CPU Idle
61.63s Time To Interactive
116s Visually Complete
117.19s Fully Loaded

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#13 CNN
0.09s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.07s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
40.33s First CPU Idle
46.4s Visually Complete
48.48s Time To Interactive
113.16s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.29s Backend
1.4s Start Render
10.92s Largest Contentful Paint
17.52s First CPU Idle
17.52s Time To Interactive
18s Visually Complete
113.97s Fully Loaded

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#15 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
35.72s First CPU Idle
37s Visually Complete
90.02s Time To Interactive
95.91s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.7s Start Render
7.11s Largest Contentful Paint
24.5s Last Painted Hero
30.47s First CPU Idle
30.47s Time To Interactive
107s Visually Complete
119.79s Fully Loaded

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