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 YAHOO NEWS
0.15s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
4.4s Last Painted Hero
11.09s First CPU Idle
11.09s Time To Interactive
13.08s Fully Loaded

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#2 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.2s Start Render
0.42s Largest Contentful Paint
11.1s Visually Complete
14.26s First CPU Idle
14.26s Time To Interactive
24.1s Last Painted Hero
28.35s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.23s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
5.7s Visually Complete
12.99s First CPU Idle
12.99s Time To Interactive
17.45s Fully Loaded

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#4 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.09s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.28s Largest Contentful Paint
2.72s First CPU Idle
2.72s Time To Interactive
2.99s Fully Loaded
3.1s Last Painted Hero
3.1s Visually Complete

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#5 BBC.COM
0.09s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
8.67s First CPU Idle
8.67s Time To Interactive
8.8s Visually Complete
10.07s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUZZFEED
0.06s Backend
0.61s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
11.8s Last Painted Hero
16.3s Visually Complete
19.98s First CPU Idle
19.98s Time To Interactive
49.34s Fully Loaded

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#7 BLOOMBERG
0.08s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.9s Last Painted Hero
2.57s Largest Contentful Paint
8.2s Visually Complete
11.73s First CPU Idle
11.73s Time To Interactive
38.34s Fully Loaded

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#8 NPR
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
4.13s Largest Contentful Paint
7.8s Last Painted Hero
12.2s Visually Complete
16.1s First CPU Idle
16.1s Time To Interactive
18.74s Fully Loaded

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#9 ESPN
0.12s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.11s Largest Contentful Paint
4.2s Last Painted Hero
9.3s Visually Complete
14.27s First CPU Idle
14.27s Time To Interactive
26.95s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
14.4s Last Painted Hero
29.87s First CPU Idle
29.87s Time To Interactive
72.8s Visually Complete
77.12s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.47s Largest Contentful Paint
3.1s Last Painted Hero
6.4s Visually Complete
7.15s First CPU Idle
7.15s Time To Interactive
27.42s Fully Loaded

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#12 POLITICO
0.11s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.49s Largest Contentful Paint
7.8s Last Painted Hero
7.8s Visually Complete
17.4s First CPU Idle
17.4s Time To Interactive
19.35s Fully Loaded

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#13 VOX
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.98s Largest Contentful Paint
13.78s First CPU Idle
13.78s Time To Interactive
14.3s Last Painted Hero
14.3s Visually Complete
30.9s Fully Loaded

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#14 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.3s Start Render
12.08s Largest Contentful Paint
22.76s First CPU Idle
22.76s Time To Interactive
22.9s Last Painted Hero
27.9s Visually Complete
31.95s Fully Loaded

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#15 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.46s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
10.9s Visually Complete
15.07s First CPU Idle
15.07s Time To Interactive
33.28s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.72s Largest Contentful Paint
29.32s First CPU Idle
29.32s Time To Interactive
33.6s Last Painted Hero
63s Visually Complete
119.74s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.45s Largest Contentful Paint
12.87s First CPU Idle
12.87s Time To Interactive
37.8s Last Painted Hero
40s Visually Complete
77.34s Fully Loaded

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