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
0.6s Start Render
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
2.7s Last Painted Hero
13s Visually Complete
14.26s First CPU Idle
14.26s Time To Interactive
56.36s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.09s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
4.84s First CPU Idle
4.84s Time To Interactive
8.04s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.1s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.56s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
6.64s First CPU Idle
6.64s Time To Interactive
18.12s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.31s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
6.3s Visually Complete
7.47s First CPU Idle
7.47s Time To Interactive
13.73s Fully Loaded

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#5 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete
5.64s First CPU Idle
5.64s Time To Interactive
54.46s Fully Loaded

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#6 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
2s Start Render
2.16s Largest Contentful Paint
3.4s Last Painted Hero
3.4s Visually Complete
6.41s First CPU Idle
6.41s Time To Interactive
14.27s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.22s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.99s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Last Painted Hero
6.74s First CPU Idle
6.74s Time To Interactive
8s Visually Complete
60.66s Fully Loaded

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#8 NPR
0.11s Backend
0.7s Start Render
3.14s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
9.8s Visually Complete
13.54s First CPU Idle
13.54s Time To Interactive
26.55s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.28s Backend
1s Start Render
1.42s Largest Contentful Paint
2.81s First CPU Idle
2.81s Time To Interactive
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
4.39s Fully Loaded

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#10 ESPN
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
5.72s Largest Contentful Paint
11.89s First CPU Idle
17.97s Time To Interactive
18.7s Visually Complete
18.75s Fully Loaded

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#11 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.32s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
7.51s First CPU Idle
15.68s Time To Interactive
16s Visually Complete
22.78s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.45s Largest Contentful Paint
7.79s First CPU Idle
7.79s Time To Interactive
7.8s Visually Complete
16.31s Fully Loaded

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#13 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.67s Largest Contentful Paint
9.5s Last Painted Hero
12.13s First CPU Idle
17.7s Time To Interactive
26.3s Fully Loaded
28s Visually Complete

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#14 CNN
0.06s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.58s Largest Contentful Paint
3.1s Last Painted Hero
16.51s First CPU Idle
16.51s Time To Interactive
26s Visually Complete
118.83s Fully Loaded

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#15 WASHINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Visually Complete
7.91s First CPU Idle
7.91s Time To Interactive
8.5s Last Painted Hero
38.01s Fully Loaded

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#16 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
31.49s First CPU Idle
31.49s Time To Interactive
82.82s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
4.89s Largest Contentful Paint
11.08s First CPU Idle
11.08s Time To Interactive
12s Visually Complete
90.32s Fully Loaded

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#18 BLOOMBERG
0.1s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.42s Largest Contentful Paint
10.93s First CPU Idle
10.93s Time To Interactive
11.5s Last Painted Hero
11.5s Visually Complete
115.15s Fully Loaded

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