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
0.8s Start Render
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
10.5s Visually Complete
19.81s First CPU Idle
19.81s Time To Interactive
85.63s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.23s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Visually Complete
2.6s Last Painted Hero
4.68s First CPU Idle
4.68s Time To Interactive
12.75s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.64s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Visually Complete
17.64s First CPU Idle
17.64s Time To Interactive
85.19s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.48s Largest Contentful Paint
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
6.3s Visually Complete
13.67s First CPU Idle
13.67s Time To Interactive
16.72s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.12s First CPU Idle
2.12s Time To Interactive
2.2s Last Painted Hero
2.2s Visually Complete
2.23s Largest Contentful Paint
4.29s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.43s Largest Contentful Paint
13.51s First CPU Idle
13.51s Time To Interactive
14s Visually Complete
15.94s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.15s Backend
1.6s Start Render
3.1s Last Painted Hero
4.17s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Visually Complete
8.7s First CPU Idle
8.7s Time To Interactive
10.18s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.31s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.52s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
11.5s Visually Complete
16.7s First CPU Idle
16.7s Time To Interactive
18.7s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
7.1s Last Painted Hero
7.1s Visually Complete
7.52s First CPU Idle
7.52s Time To Interactive
24.89s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Last Painted Hero
19.9s First CPU Idle
19.9s Time To Interactive
56.45s Fully Loaded
61.4s Visually Complete

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#11 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.23s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.49s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Last Painted Hero
6.42s First CPU Idle
6.42s Time To Interactive
6.8s Visually Complete
11.63s Fully Loaded

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#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.2s Backend
1.4s Start Render
11.57s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
17.03s First CPU Idle
17.03s Time To Interactive
18s Visually Complete
40.88s Fully Loaded

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#13 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
12.94s First CPU Idle
12.94s Time To Interactive
23s Visually Complete
118.08s Fully Loaded

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#14 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
31.46s First CPU Idle
31.46s Time To Interactive
38.1s Visually Complete
51.79s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.57s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
32.68s First CPU Idle
42.83s Time To Interactive
59s Visually Complete
115.18s Fully Loaded

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#16 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.46s Largest Contentful Paint
15.82s First CPU Idle
15.82s Time To Interactive
20.2s Last Painted Hero
20.2s Visually Complete
70.76s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.18s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3.31s Largest Contentful Paint
10.34s First CPU Idle
16.31s Time To Interactive
16.6s Last Painted Hero
16.6s Visually Complete
26.51s Fully Loaded

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#18 BLOOMBERG
0.1s Backend
2.4s Start Render
19.8s Last Painted Hero
19.8s Visually Complete
19.83s Largest Contentful Paint
20.81s First CPU Idle
20.81s Time To Interactive
38.56s Fully Loaded

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