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
0.86s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Last Painted Hero
5.4s Visually Complete
27.02s First CPU Idle
27.02s Time To Interactive
81.96s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Last Painted Hero
2.4s Visually Complete
4.62s First CPU Idle
4.62s Time To Interactive
12.92s Fully Loaded

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#3 VOX
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Visually Complete
15.11s First CPU Idle
15.11s Time To Interactive
31.35s Fully Loaded

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#4 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
2.14s Largest Contentful Paint
2.18s First CPU Idle
2.18s Time To Interactive
3.98s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.45s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Visually Complete
19.66s First CPU Idle
19.66s Time To Interactive
20.45s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.14s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.8s Last Painted Hero
3.61s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Visually Complete
7.82s First CPU Idle
7.82s Time To Interactive
9.54s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.32s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.25s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
10.25s First CPU Idle
10.25s Time To Interactive
10.4s Visually Complete
15.59s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.22s Backend
1s Start Render
1.52s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
4.41s First CPU Idle
4.41s Time To Interactive
18.5s Visually Complete
18.95s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.11s Largest Contentful Paint
3.6s Last Painted Hero
14s Visually Complete
18.3s First CPU Idle
18.3s Time To Interactive
21.04s Fully Loaded

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#10 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
13.8s First CPU Idle
13.8s Time To Interactive
33.8s Last Painted Hero
33.8s Visually Complete
55.62s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.57s Largest Contentful Paint
44.95s First CPU Idle
54.16s Time To Interactive
57s Last Painted Hero
70s Visually Complete
117.18s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2s Start Render
2.43s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
17.87s First CPU Idle
17.87s Time To Interactive
22s Visually Complete
39.1s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
21.1s Visually Complete
31.39s First CPU Idle
31.39s Time To Interactive
75.24s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.15s Backend
0.9s Start Render
2.67s Largest Contentful Paint
16.84s First CPU Idle
16.84s Time To Interactive
18.2s Last Painted Hero
18.2s Visually Complete
31.22s Fully Loaded

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#15 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Last Painted Hero
31.63s First CPU Idle
31.63s Time To Interactive
79s Visually Complete
90.8s Fully Loaded

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#16 NEW YORK TIMES
0.2s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.83s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
21.16s First CPU Idle
21.16s Time To Interactive
32s Visually Complete
81.44s Fully Loaded

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#17 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
11.24s First CPU Idle
11.24s Time To Interactive
48.7s Visually Complete
119.19s Fully Loaded

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