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

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#1 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.54s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Visually Complete
1.9s Last Painted Hero
5.23s First CPU Idle
5.23s Time To Interactive
13.78s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
1.68s Largest Contentful Paint
2.72s First CPU Idle
2.72s Time To Interactive
3.88s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
3.34s First CPU Idle
3.34s Time To Interactive
3.7s Fully Loaded
3.7s Last Painted Hero
3.7s Visually Complete

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#4 ESPN
0.13s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.8s Last Painted Hero
4.39s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Visually Complete
8.26s First CPU Idle
8.26s Time To Interactive
11.05s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUZZFEED
0.08s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
6s Visually Complete
12.02s First CPU Idle
12.02s Time To Interactive
16.97s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.87s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
6.17s First CPU Idle
6.17s Time To Interactive
6.4s Visually Complete
15.03s Fully Loaded

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#7 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.54s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Visually Complete
15.57s First CPU Idle
15.57s Time To Interactive
31.94s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.18s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
6.39s First CPU Idle
6.39s Time To Interactive
7.5s Visually Complete
13.98s Fully Loaded

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#9 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
8.1s Visually Complete
28.61s First CPU Idle
79.99s Time To Interactive
119.67s Fully Loaded

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#10 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Start Render
16.3s Last Painted Hero
16.3s Visually Complete
21.59s First CPU Idle
21.59s Time To Interactive
41.11s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
0.9s Start Render
4.88s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
17s Visually Complete
17.84s First CPU Idle
17.84s Time To Interactive
76.2s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.17s Backend
0.9s Start Render
2.63s Largest Contentful Paint
16.06s First CPU Idle
16.06s Time To Interactive
17.1s Last Painted Hero
17.1s Visually Complete
54.66s Fully Loaded

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#13 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.56s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
15.74s First CPU Idle
15.74s Time To Interactive
19s Visually Complete
32.79s Fully Loaded

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
5.7s Last Painted Hero
24.23s First CPU Idle
24.23s Time To Interactive
29.38s Fully Loaded
34.4s Visually Complete

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#15 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.72s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
37.76s First CPU Idle
37.76s Time To Interactive
49.2s Visually Complete
117.45s Fully Loaded

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#16 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.86s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
46.81s First CPU Idle
54s Visually Complete
104.43s Time To Interactive
111.23s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.25s Backend
1.3s Start Render
14.93s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
18.5s First CPU Idle
18.5s Time To Interactive
53.7s Fully Loaded
57.4s Visually Complete

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