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
0.7s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Last Painted Hero
6.3s Visually Complete
9.33s First CPU Idle
9.33s Time To Interactive
16.67s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2s Last Painted Hero
2s Visually Complete
2.06s Largest Contentful Paint
2.31s First CPU Idle
2.31s Time To Interactive
13.84s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.78s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
5.7s First CPU Idle
5.7s Time To Interactive
13.16s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.49s Largest Contentful Paint
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
11.88s First CPU Idle
11.88s Time To Interactive
24.65s Fully Loaded

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#5 YAHOO NEWS
0.27s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
8.4s Visually Complete
9.77s Fully Loaded
11.39s First CPU Idle
11.39s Time To Interactive

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.21s Backend
1s Start Render
1.53s Largest Contentful Paint
3.7s Last Painted Hero
4.56s First CPU Idle
4.56s Time To Interactive
6.5s Visually Complete
22.49s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
7.9s Visually Complete
17.4s First CPU Idle
17.4s Time To Interactive
26.94s Fully Loaded

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#8 ESPN
0.14s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.05s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s Last Painted Hero
6.9s Visually Complete
10.2s First CPU Idle
10.2s Time To Interactive
12.08s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.11s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
3.17s First CPU Idle
3.17s Time To Interactive
3.5s Last Painted Hero
3.5s Visually Complete
3.59s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
4.2s Last Painted Hero
17s Visually Complete
19.51s First CPU Idle
19.51s Time To Interactive
26.42s Fully Loaded

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#11 FORBES
0.07s Backend
1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
16s Visually Complete
17s Last Painted Hero
45.08s First CPU Idle
45.08s Time To Interactive
82.44s Fully Loaded

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#12 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.71s Largest Contentful Paint
11.9s Visually Complete
24.99s First CPU Idle
39.22s Time To Interactive
67.57s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.67s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
22.81s First CPU Idle
22.81s Time To Interactive
32.4s Visually Complete
39.85s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.87s Largest Contentful Paint
24.3s Last Painted Hero
24.3s Visually Complete
28.94s First CPU Idle
28.94s Time To Interactive
71.84s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.22s Backend
1.2s Start Render
11.94s Largest Contentful Paint
17.42s First CPU Idle
17.42s Time To Interactive
19s Visually Complete
52.97s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.6s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
37.4s Visually Complete
39.46s First CPU Idle
39.46s Time To Interactive
93.34s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.14s Backend
0.8s Start Render
2.91s Largest Contentful Paint
17.84s First CPU Idle
17.84s Time To Interactive
18.4s Last Painted Hero
18.4s Visually Complete
31.97s Fully Loaded

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