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
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.32s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
10.35s First CPU Idle
10.35s Time To Interactive
13.4s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Visually Complete
2.1s Last Painted Hero
6.27s First CPU Idle
6.27s Time To Interactive
15.52s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.59s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Start Render
0.6s Last Painted Hero
5s Visually Complete
11.05s First CPU Idle
11.05s Time To Interactive
23.38s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
1.43s Largest Contentful Paint
1.78s First CPU Idle
1.78s Time To Interactive
3.67s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.4s Last Painted Hero
3.83s Largest Contentful Paint
4.3s Visually Complete
7.77s First CPU Idle
7.77s Time To Interactive
9.63s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
9.8s First CPU Idle
9.8s Time To Interactive
10.5s Visually Complete
30.03s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
3.38s First CPU Idle
3.38s Time To Interactive
3.6s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete
3.7s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.21s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
11.7s Visually Complete
20.96s First CPU Idle
20.96s Time To Interactive
55.86s Fully Loaded

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#9 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
7.7s Visually Complete
14.19s First CPU Idle
14.19s Time To Interactive
45.91s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.71s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
26.24s First CPU Idle
26.24s Time To Interactive
76.66s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.45s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
42.34s First CPU Idle
42.34s Time To Interactive
99s Visually Complete
118.83s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2.6s Start Render
6.58s Largest Contentful Paint
6.7s Last Painted Hero
10.5s Visually Complete
20.72s First CPU Idle
20.72s Time To Interactive
112.65s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.08s Largest Contentful Paint
52.15s First CPU Idle
67.71s Time To Interactive
78.73s Fully Loaded
78.8s Last Painted Hero
78.8s Visually Complete

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.31s Backend
1.2s Start Render
11.81s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
19s Visually Complete
19.61s First CPU Idle
19.61s Time To Interactive
51.85s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.29s Backend
1s Start Render
27.6s First CPU Idle
27.6s Time To Interactive
47.4s Largest Contentful Paint
60.6s Last Painted Hero
60.6s Visually Complete
69.77s Fully Loaded

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#16 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
18.05s First CPU Idle
18.05s Time To Interactive
51.14s Fully Loaded

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