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
0.9s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
8.43s First CPU Idle
8.43s Time To Interactive
8.5s Visually Complete
16.85s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.04s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
4.6s First CPU Idle
4.6s Time To Interactive
6.98s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Visually Complete
1.74s Largest Contentful Paint
2.22s First CPU Idle
2.22s Time To Interactive
3.87s Fully Loaded

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#4 ESPN
0.12s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
4.68s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Visually Complete
8.55s First CPU Idle
8.55s Time To Interactive
10.14s Fully Loaded

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#5 YAHOO NEWS
0.19s Backend
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
8.3s Visually Complete
9.07s First CPU Idle
9.07s Time To Interactive
11.66s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.57s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Visually Complete
13.14s First CPU Idle
13.14s Time To Interactive
24.3s Fully Loaded

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#7 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
8.2s Visually Complete
20.86s First CPU Idle
20.86s Time To Interactive
26.23s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
3.31s First CPU Idle
3.31s Time To Interactive
3.77s Fully Loaded
3.8s Last Painted Hero
3.8s Visually Complete

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#9 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.43s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
9.4s Visually Complete
11.05s First CPU Idle
11.05s Time To Interactive
28.37s Fully Loaded

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.24s Backend
1.5s Start Render
3.28s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
7.5s First CPU Idle
7.5s Time To Interactive
9.5s Visually Complete
15.31s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.7s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Last Painted Hero
42.89s First CPU Idle
42.89s Time To Interactive
65s Visually Complete
119.83s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
1.25s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
5.4s Last Painted Hero
38s Visually Complete
62.79s First CPU Idle
71.31s Time To Interactive
87.21s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.22s Backend
1.56s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Start Render
55.96s First CPU Idle
55.96s Time To Interactive
63.5s Last Painted Hero
63.5s Visually Complete
68.07s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.14s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.26s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
26.52s First CPU Idle
26.52s Time To Interactive
41.8s Visually Complete
59.88s Fully Loaded

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#15 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
29.56s First CPU Idle
60s Visually Complete
63.81s Time To Interactive
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.18s Backend
1.1s Start Render
10.69s Largest Contentful Paint
17.75s First CPU Idle
17.75s Time To Interactive
25.44s Fully Loaded
25.7s Last Painted Hero
25.7s Visually Complete

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.26s Backend
1.5s Start Render
7.45s Largest Contentful Paint
19.37s First CPU Idle
19.37s Time To Interactive
49s Visually Complete
116.96s Fully Loaded

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#18 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.7s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
14.29s First CPU Idle
14.29s Time To Interactive
33.69s Fully Loaded

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