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
0.5s Start Render
0.83s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Last Painted Hero
3.8s Visually Complete
9.67s First CPU Idle
9.67s Time To Interactive
12.76s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Visually Complete
2.6s Last Painted Hero
6.47s First CPU Idle
6.47s Time To Interactive
14.96s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.3s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
1.79s First CPU Idle
1.79s Time To Interactive
3.68s Fully Loaded

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#4 ESPN
0.1s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.5s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
4.36s Largest Contentful Paint
7.6s First CPU Idle
7.6s Time To Interactive
9.5s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.52s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Visually Complete
5.59s First CPU Idle
5.59s Time To Interactive
23.55s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.76s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
8.5s Visually Complete
11.03s First CPU Idle
11.03s Time To Interactive
16.46s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.75s Largest Contentful Paint
3.02s First CPU Idle
3.02s Time To Interactive
3.4s Last Painted Hero
3.4s Visually Complete
3.53s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.19s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
26.22s First CPU Idle
36.5s Fully Loaded
38.98s Time To Interactive

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.21s Backend
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
10.7s Visually Complete
18.1s First CPU Idle
18.1s Time To Interactive
51.88s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.18s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
4.5s Last Painted Hero
40.85s First CPU Idle
40.85s Time To Interactive
80.6s Visually Complete
81.4s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.69s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
26.26s First CPU Idle
32.98s Time To Interactive
98s Visually Complete
119.88s Fully Loaded

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#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.33s Backend
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Start Render
17s Last Painted Hero
19.71s First CPU Idle
19.71s Time To Interactive
32s Visually Complete
56.98s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
1.8s Start Render
6.62s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Last Painted Hero
42.33s First CPU Idle
42.33s Time To Interactive
108s Visually Complete
119.97s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.14s Backend
0.7s Start Render
11.09s First CPU Idle
11.09s Time To Interactive
44.94s Largest Contentful Paint
58.5s Last Painted Hero
58.5s Visually Complete
67.55s Fully Loaded

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#15 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.67s Largest Contentful Paint
11.9s First CPU Idle
34.6s Last Painted Hero
34.6s Visually Complete
34.8s Time To Interactive
52.84s Fully Loaded

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