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 Visually Complete which is when all content in the viewport has rendered, and nothing in the viewport changes as the rest of the page loads.

MEDIA SITES IN USA ON A DESKTOP FAST CONNECTION

See full dashboard comparing all sites >

#1 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.28s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
14.71s First CPU Idle
14.71s Time To Interactive
18.63s Fully Loaded

Explore why this site is the fastest >

#2 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.5s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
2.07s First CPU Idle
2.07s Time To Interactive
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
3.24s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#3 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.73s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Last Painted Hero
3.2s Visually Complete
5.35s First CPU Idle
5.35s Time To Interactive
53.5s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#4 BBC.COM
0.09s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
4.2s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
6.09s First CPU Idle
6.09s Time To Interactive
8.93s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#5 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Last Painted Hero
5.7s Visually Complete
10.27s First CPU Idle
10.27s Time To Interactive
15.26s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#6 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
6.13s Largest Contentful Paint
7.1s Visually Complete
12.13s First CPU Idle
12.13s Time To Interactive
17.95s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#7 WASHINGTON POST
0.11s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
7.83s First CPU Idle
7.83s Time To Interactive
37.67s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#8 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.74s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Last Painted Hero
8.4s Visually Complete
14.16s First CPU Idle
14.16s Time To Interactive
16.55s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#9 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.37s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Visually Complete
9.49s First CPU Idle
9.49s Time To Interactive
27.52s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#10 NPR
0.08s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.82s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Last Painted Hero
9.3s Visually Complete
10.15s First CPU Idle
10.15s Time To Interactive
26.05s Fully Loaded

Explore why this site is the slowest >

#11 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
10.44s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Visually Complete
12.39s First CPU Idle
12.39s Time To Interactive
27s Last Painted Hero
31.3s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
5.15s Largest Contentful Paint
10.86s First CPU Idle
10.86s Time To Interactive
11.2s Last Painted Hero
11.2s Visually Complete
28.9s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#13 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.77s Largest Contentful Paint
11.32s First CPU Idle
11.32s Time To Interactive
12.2s Last Painted Hero
12.2s Visually Complete
115.84s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
14.52s First CPU Idle
25.55s Time To Interactive
25.8s Visually Complete
29.13s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#15 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.64s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
12.37s First CPU Idle
12.37s Time To Interactive
25.98s Fully Loaded
31s Visually Complete

Explore this site >

#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.67s Largest Contentful Paint
2.7s Last Painted Hero
21.84s First CPU Idle
21.84s Time To Interactive
46s Visually Complete
119.95s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#17 YAHOO NEWS
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
16.14s First CPU Idle
36.44s Time To Interactive
58.5s Visually Complete
67.25s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >