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
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
6.2s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
14.03s First CPU Idle
14.03s Time To Interactive
49.36s Fully Loaded

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#2 FORBES
0.09s Backend
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
1s Visually Complete
9s Last Painted Hero
13.94s First CPU Idle
13.94s Time To Interactive
52.81s Fully Loaded

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#3 VOX
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
9.02s First CPU Idle
9.02s Time To Interactive
26.87s Fully Loaded

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#4 POLITICO
0.08s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.63s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Visually Complete
8.32s First CPU Idle
8.32s Time To Interactive
48.96s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.2s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.99s First CPU Idle
2.99s Time To Interactive
6.48s Fully Loaded

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#6 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.96s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Visually Complete
2.8s Last Painted Hero
20.87s First CPU Idle
20.87s Time To Interactive
50.64s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.1s Backend
1.7s Start Render
4.4s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Last Painted Hero
6.5s Visually Complete
10.23s First CPU Idle
10.23s Time To Interactive
13.06s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
7.2s Last Painted Hero
7.2s Visually Complete
7.52s First CPU Idle
7.52s Time To Interactive
25.41s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.43s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.21s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
9.8s Visually Complete
15.48s First CPU Idle
15.48s Time To Interactive
18.26s Fully Loaded

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.45s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.47s Largest Contentful Paint
3.4s Last Painted Hero
4.4s Visually Complete
4.91s First CPU Idle
4.91s Time To Interactive
9.62s Fully Loaded

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#11 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.98s Largest Contentful Paint
8.1s Visually Complete
9.48s First CPU Idle
9.48s Time To Interactive
16.61s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
8.4s Visually Complete
12.06s First CPU Idle
12.06s Time To Interactive
54.27s Fully Loaded

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#13 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.84s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
7.86s First CPU Idle
7.86s Time To Interactive
13s Visually Complete
42.67s Fully Loaded

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.89s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
6s Visually Complete
17.81s First CPU Idle
17.81s Time To Interactive
84.15s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.24s Largest Contentful Paint
14.6s Last Painted Hero
14.6s Visually Complete
15.39s First CPU Idle
15.39s Time To Interactive
36.72s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.88s Largest Contentful Paint
28.09s First CPU Idle
28.09s Time To Interactive
30.5s Last Painted Hero
30.5s Visually Complete
116.01s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.12s Backend
0.9s Start Render
3.09s Largest Contentful Paint
12.66s First CPU Idle
12.66s Time To Interactive
16.9s Last Painted Hero
16.9s Visually Complete
26.76s Fully Loaded

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#18 NEW YORK TIMES
0.16s Backend
1.4s Start Render
10.34s Largest Contentful Paint
17.41s First CPU Idle
17.41s Time To Interactive
38s Visually Complete
66.84s Fully Loaded

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