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
1.03s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Last Painted Hero
6.3s Visually Complete
22.41s First CPU Idle
22.41s Time To Interactive
80.41s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.21s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
4.74s First CPU Idle
4.74s Time To Interactive
12.77s Fully Loaded
17s Visually Complete

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#3 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.78s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
12.42s First CPU Idle
12.42s Time To Interactive
33.26s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.25s Largest Contentful Paint
2.55s First CPU Idle
2.55s Time To Interactive
14.28s 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
10s Visually Complete
14.07s First CPU Idle
14.07s Time To Interactive
31.99s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
13.69s First CPU Idle
13.69s Time To Interactive
14s Visually Complete
31.81s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.15s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3.3s Last Painted Hero
4.33s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Visually Complete
10.53s First CPU Idle
10.53s Time To Interactive
12.29s Fully Loaded

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#8 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
1s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Last Painted Hero
14.11s First CPU Idle
14.11s Time To Interactive
16s Visually Complete
19.49s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.38s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.51s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
10.6s Visually Complete
15.94s First CPU Idle
15.94s Time To Interactive
17.94s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.09s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
7.3s Last Painted Hero
7.3s Visually Complete
7.45s First CPU Idle
7.45s Time To Interactive
24.69s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.64s Largest Contentful Paint
8.8s Visually Complete
14.29s First CPU Idle
14.29s Time To Interactive
45.97s Fully Loaded

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#12 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.8s First CPU Idle
5.8s Time To Interactive
10s Visually Complete
20.84s Fully Loaded

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#13 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.59s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
30.27s First CPU Idle
36.6s Visually Complete
36.62s Time To Interactive
114.88s Fully Loaded

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#14 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.86s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
16.08s First CPU Idle
35.63s Time To Interactive
65.9s Last Painted Hero
71.15s Fully Loaded

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#15 FORBES
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
31.41s First CPU Idle
31.41s Time To Interactive
56s Visually Complete
61.6s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.17s Backend
1s Start Render
3.17s Largest Contentful Paint
9.72s First CPU Idle
17.21s Time To Interactive
17.4s Last Painted Hero
17.4s Visually Complete
26.84s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.2s Backend
1.6s Start Render
4.78s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
24.83s First CPU Idle
24.83s Time To Interactive
36.9s Visually Complete
57.18s Fully Loaded

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#18 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.7s Start Render
3.06s Largest Contentful Paint
21.3s Last Painted Hero
22.41s First CPU Idle
22.41s Time To Interactive
97.7s Visually Complete
118.51s Fully Loaded

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