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 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
8.5s Visually Complete
9s Last Painted Hero
16.11s First CPU Idle
16.11s Time To Interactive
27.31s Fully Loaded

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#2 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
6.6s Last Painted Hero
10.1s Visually Complete
15.06s First CPU Idle
15.06s Time To Interactive
48.95s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.1s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.74s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
8.34s First CPU Idle
8.34s Time To Interactive
49.35s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.31s Largest Contentful Paint
9.09s First CPU Idle
9.09s Time To Interactive
20.2s Visually Complete
28.73s Fully Loaded

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#5 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.5s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Visually Complete
3s Last Painted Hero
20.45s First CPU Idle
20.45s Time To Interactive
49.75s Fully Loaded

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#6 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.25s Largest Contentful Paint
2.87s First CPU Idle
2.87s Time To Interactive
6.85s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.43s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.05s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
4.5s Visually Complete
4.51s First CPU Idle
4.51s Time To Interactive
9.6s Fully Loaded

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#8 ESPN
0.1s Backend
1.5s Start Render
3.85s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
10.28s First CPU Idle
10.28s Time To Interactive
12.45s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.36s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.28s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
12s Visually Complete
16.17s First CPU Idle
16.17s Time To Interactive
22.78s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
4.3s Last Painted Hero
12.2s Visually Complete
18.73s First CPU Idle
18.73s Time To Interactive
21.07s Fully Loaded

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#11 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Largest Contentful Paint
0.5s Last Painted Hero
8.5s Visually Complete
12.61s First CPU Idle
12.61s Time To Interactive
31.51s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
8.2s Visually Complete
11.53s First CPU Idle
11.53s Time To Interactive
54.42s Fully Loaded

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#13 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
10.15s First CPU Idle
10.15s Time To Interactive
22.2s Visually Complete
28.64s Fully Loaded

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#14 USA TODAY
0.08s Backend
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
10.2s First CPU Idle
10.2s Time To Interactive
14.7s Visually Complete
54.29s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.14s Backend
1.9s Start Render
14.46s Largest Contentful Paint
14.6s Last Painted Hero
14.6s Visually Complete
15.68s First CPU Idle
15.68s Time To Interactive
37.78s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.08s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
23.56s First CPU Idle
23.56s Time To Interactive
40s Visually Complete
118.2s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
2.99s Largest Contentful Paint
16.9s Last Painted Hero
16.9s Visually Complete
16.94s First CPU Idle
16.94s Time To Interactive
21.18s Fully Loaded

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#18 NEW YORK TIMES
0.14s Backend
1.2s Start Render
9.69s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
14.17s First CPU Idle
14.17s Time To Interactive
55s Visually Complete
112.13s Fully Loaded

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