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 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Visually Complete
26.1s First CPU Idle
33.16s Time To Interactive
54.2s Fully Loaded

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#2 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Last Painted Hero
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Visually Complete
15.39s First CPU Idle
15.39s Time To Interactive
22.61s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.5s Visually Complete
15.15s First CPU Idle
15.15s Time To Interactive
17.16s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Visually Complete
8.94s First CPU Idle
8.94s Time To Interactive
10.92s Fully Loaded

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#5 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.8s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
22.89s First CPU Idle
22.89s Time To Interactive
35.59s Fully Loaded

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#6 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.22s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Visually Complete
3.1s Last Painted Hero
25.57s First CPU Idle
25.57s Time To Interactive
28.62s Fully Loaded

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#7 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.7s Largest Contentful Paint
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.7s Visually Complete
3.41s First CPU Idle
3.41s Time To Interactive
6.87s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
6.93s First CPU Idle
6.93s Time To Interactive
8.5s Last Painted Hero
8.5s Visually Complete
24.43s Fully Loaded

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#9 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.23s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Last Painted Hero
6s Visually Complete
9.7s First CPU Idle
9.7s Time To Interactive
11.3s Fully Loaded

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.45s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.02s Largest Contentful Paint
2.95s First CPU Idle
2.95s Time To Interactive
3.06s Fully Loaded
3.1s Last Painted Hero
3.1s Visually Complete

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
9.8s First CPU Idle
9.8s Time To Interactive
17s Visually Complete
54.47s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.69s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
19s Visually Complete
34.45s First CPU Idle
34.45s Time To Interactive
119.62s Fully Loaded

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#13 NEW YORK TIMES
0.12s Backend
1.4s Start Render
7.2s Largest Contentful Paint
14s Visually Complete
14.65s First CPU Idle
30.74s Fully Loaded
30.91s Time To Interactive

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.11s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.65s Largest Contentful Paint
24.7s Visually Complete
24.73s First CPU Idle
24.73s Time To Interactive
44.83s Fully Loaded

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#15 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
12.54s Largest Contentful Paint
21.75s First CPU Idle
21.75s Time To Interactive
28.7s Last Painted Hero
28.7s Visually Complete
31.64s Fully Loaded

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#16 YAHOO NEWS
0.41s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.53s Largest Contentful Paint
30.74s First CPU Idle
37.27s Time To Interactive
59.6s Visually Complete
65.82s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.1s Start Render
16.85s First CPU Idle
16.85s Time To Interactive
17.19s Largest Contentful Paint
17.2s Last Painted Hero
17.2s Visually Complete
119.24s Fully Loaded

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#18 REUTERS
0.13s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
0.82s Largest Contentful Paint
34s First CPU Idle
34s Time To Interactive
41.3s Visually Complete
46.74s Fully Loaded

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#19 NPR
0.09s Backend
1s Start Render
3.81s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
26.64s First CPU Idle
26.64s Time To Interactive
26.7s Visually Complete
32.49s Fully Loaded

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