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
0.6s Start Render
1.11s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
19.12s First CPU Idle
19.12s Time To Interactive
79.09s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
4.5s First CPU Idle
4.5s Time To Interactive
12.83s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.08s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.74s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
19.22s First CPU Idle
25.43s Time To Interactive
34.4s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.19s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
2.56s First CPU Idle
2.56s Time To Interactive
4.02s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Visually Complete
13.16s First CPU Idle
13.16s Time To Interactive
30.98s Fully Loaded

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.15s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
8.26s First CPU Idle
8.26s Time To Interactive
8.4s Visually Complete
9.5s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.15s Backend
1.7s Start Render
3.1s Last Painted Hero
3.97s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Visually Complete
8.76s First CPU Idle
8.76s Time To Interactive
10.46s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.24s Backend
1s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
4.85s First CPU Idle
4.85s Time To Interactive
10.06s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.17s Backend
1s Start Render
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
8.29s First CPU Idle
8.29s Time To Interactive
18s Visually Complete
28.07s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
18.59s First CPU Idle
18.59s Time To Interactive
21.84s Fully Loaded
26.8s Visually Complete

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.73s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.5s Visually Complete
40.59s First CPU Idle
67.25s Time To Interactive
72.07s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
10.59s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Visually Complete
13.04s First CPU Idle
13.04s Time To Interactive
27.1s Last Painted Hero
31.47s Fully Loaded

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#13 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
31s Visually Complete
35.6s First CPU Idle
35.6s Time To Interactive
64.1s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
15.3s Last Painted Hero
15.3s Visually Complete
17.69s First CPU Idle
17.69s Time To Interactive
20.1s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.17s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
32.49s First CPU Idle
32.49s Time To Interactive
38.4s Visually Complete
116.14s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.22s Backend
0.7s Start Render
3.56s Largest Contentful Paint
21.3s Last Painted Hero
21.3s Visually Complete
22.03s First CPU Idle
22.03s Time To Interactive
26.89s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.19s Backend
1.9s Start Render
1.91s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
18.99s First CPU Idle
18.99s Time To Interactive
33s Visually Complete
51.35s Fully Loaded

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#18 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.4s Start Render
2.44s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
24.84s First CPU Idle
24.84s Time To Interactive
31.9s Visually Complete
39.94s Fully Loaded

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