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 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
2s Last Painted Hero
6.73s First CPU Idle
6.73s Time To Interactive
15.49s Fully Loaded

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#2 BUZZFEED
0.09s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Visually Complete
7.5s Last Painted Hero
10.51s First CPU Idle
10.51s Time To Interactive
16.68s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.37s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
1.79s First CPU Idle
1.79s Time To Interactive
3.59s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.6s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Last Painted Hero
5.2s Visually Complete
5.72s First CPU Idle
5.72s Time To Interactive
23.6s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
3.44s Largest Contentful Paint
4.5s Visually Complete
8.15s First CPU Idle
8.15s Time To Interactive
10.05s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.08s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.28s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
11.53s First CPU Idle
11.53s Time To Interactive
12s Visually Complete
31.07s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.29s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.08s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
7.8s Visually Complete
22.64s First CPU Idle
22.64s Time To Interactive
24.81s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
3.33s First CPU Idle
3.33s Time To Interactive
3.4s Last Painted Hero
3.4s Visually Complete
3.5s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.18s Backend
1s Start Render
7.62s Largest Contentful Paint
10.4s Last Painted Hero
26.03s First CPU Idle
26.03s Time To Interactive
49s Visually Complete
58.44s Fully Loaded

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#10 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
13.62s First CPU Idle
13.62s Time To Interactive
34.6s Last Painted Hero
34.6s Visually Complete
51.61s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.02s Largest Contentful Paint
2.8s Last Painted Hero
51.75s First CPU Idle
51.75s Time To Interactive
59s Visually Complete
119.53s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.8s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
27.6s First CPU Idle
27.6s Time To Interactive
57s Visually Complete
60.43s Fully Loaded

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#13 NEW YORK TIMES
0.22s Backend
1.1s Start Render
11.81s Largest Contentful Paint
14.5s Last Painted Hero
18.52s First CPU Idle
18.52s Time To Interactive
37.5s Visually Complete
62.28s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.32s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
52.12s First CPU Idle
62.78s Time To Interactive
71.4s Last Painted Hero
71.4s Visually Complete
72.55s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.18s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.34s Largest Contentful Paint
36.15s First CPU Idle
36.15s Time To Interactive
38s Visually Complete
39.2s Last Painted Hero
50.02s 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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