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
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
17.92s First CPU Idle
17.92s Time To Interactive
84.5s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.49s Largest Contentful Paint
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.7s Visually Complete
4.96s First CPU Idle
4.96s Time To Interactive
12.86s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.72s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Visually Complete
12.03s First CPU Idle
12.03s Time To Interactive
33.21s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
2.12s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s First CPU Idle
2.4s Time To Interactive
14.14s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.53s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Visually Complete
12.21s First CPU Idle
12.21s Time To Interactive
16.55s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.14s Backend
1.7s Start Render
3.1s Last Painted Hero
4.23s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Visually Complete
9.42s First CPU Idle
9.42s Time To Interactive
10.56s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.49s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
14.5s First CPU Idle
14.5s Time To Interactive
24s Visually Complete
31.13s Fully Loaded

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#8 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.11s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Last Painted Hero
18.73s First CPU Idle
18.73s Time To Interactive
20.58s Fully Loaded
25.6s Visually Complete

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.35s Backend
1s Start Render
1.38s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
11.71s First CPU Idle
11.71s Time To Interactive
16.28s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
1s Start Render
1.42s Largest Contentful Paint
6.9s Last Painted Hero
6.9s Visually Complete
7.59s First CPU Idle
7.59s Time To Interactive
25.13s Fully Loaded

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#11 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.21s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
8.79s First CPU Idle
8.79s Time To Interactive
19s Visually Complete
19.16s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.07s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
12.9s Last Painted Hero
12.9s Visually Complete
13.94s First CPU Idle
13.94s Time To Interactive
16.39s Fully Loaded

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#13 USA TODAY
0.06s Backend
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
8.5s Visually Complete
11.88s First CPU Idle
36.7s Last Painted Hero
37s Time To Interactive
60.77s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.18s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
17.99s First CPU Idle
17.99s Time To Interactive
19s Visually Complete
53.93s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
4.97s Largest Contentful Paint
33.03s First CPU Idle
35s Visually Complete
36.2s Last Painted Hero
39.8s Time To Interactive
117.7s Fully Loaded

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#16 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.84s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
29s Visually Complete
30.68s First CPU Idle
30.68s Time To Interactive
66.12s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.22s Backend
0.8s Start Render
3.03s Largest Contentful Paint
16.09s First CPU Idle
16.09s Time To Interactive
16.9s Last Painted Hero
16.9s Visually Complete
26.42s Fully Loaded

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#18 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
2.3s Start Render
2.35s Largest Contentful Paint
20.9s Last Painted Hero
20.9s Visually Complete
21.73s First CPU Idle
21.73s Time To Interactive
38.61s Fully Loaded

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