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 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
4.2s Visually Complete
30.11s First CPU Idle
30.11s Time To Interactive
48.76s Fully Loaded

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#2 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
10.5s Last Painted Hero
15.21s First CPU Idle
15.21s Time To Interactive
28.78s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
10s Visually Complete
11.67s First CPU Idle
11.67s Time To Interactive
17.05s Fully Loaded

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#4 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
24.68s First CPU Idle
24.68s Time To Interactive
35.69s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
10.36s First CPU Idle
10.36s Time To Interactive
12s Visually Complete
12.96s Fully Loaded

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#6 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.18s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
26.31s First CPU Idle
26.31s Time To Interactive
28.85s Fully Loaded

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#7 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.08s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.55s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Visually Complete
11.85s First CPU Idle
11.85s Time To Interactive
21.57s Fully Loaded

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#8 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
2.83s Largest Contentful Paint
3.25s First CPU Idle
3.25s Time To Interactive
6.83s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.23s Largest Contentful Paint
7.1s First CPU Idle
7.1s Time To Interactive
8.6s Last Painted Hero
8.6s Visually Complete
26.61s Fully Loaded

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#10 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.42s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
2.45s First CPU Idle
2.45s Time To Interactive
2.99s Fully Loaded
3s Last Painted Hero
3.1s Visually Complete

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#11 ESPN
0.12s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
5.05s Largest Contentful Paint
6.6s Visually Complete
9.63s First CPU Idle
9.63s Time To Interactive
11.73s Fully Loaded

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#12 USA TODAY
0.08s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.82s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Last Painted Hero
7.54s First CPU Idle
7.54s Time To Interactive
23.1s Visually Complete
73.69s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.58s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
25.56s First CPU Idle
25.56s Time To Interactive
25.6s Visually Complete
64.84s Fully Loaded

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#14 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.43s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
44.1s Visually Complete
52.19s First CPU Idle
52.19s Time To Interactive
117.66s Fully Loaded

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#15 YAHOO NEWS
0.4s Backend
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
35.64s First CPU Idle
35.64s Time To Interactive
58.1s Visually Complete
67.01s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.79s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
13.74s First CPU Idle
13.74s Time To Interactive
86.8s Visually Complete
95.12s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.12s Backend
1.9s Start Render
8.27s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
17s Visually Complete
17.4s First CPU Idle
31.15s Time To Interactive
33.84s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.09s Backend
0.9s Start Render
2.82s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
24.75s First CPU Idle
24.75s Time To Interactive
48s Visually Complete
52.11s Fully Loaded

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#19 REUTERS
0.18s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1s Last Painted Hero
2.05s Largest Contentful Paint
41.43s First CPU Idle
41.43s Time To Interactive
98.8s Visually Complete
118.41s Fully Loaded

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