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 POLITICO
0.17s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Visually Complete
8.96s First CPU Idle
8.96s Time To Interactive
33.15s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.63s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Visually Complete
3s Last Painted Hero
29.88s First CPU Idle
29.88s Time To Interactive
32.02s Fully Loaded

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#3 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.36s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
2.69s First CPU Idle
2.69s Time To Interactive
2.78s Fully Loaded
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete

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#4 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
2.89s Largest Contentful Paint
3.6s First CPU Idle
3.6s Time To Interactive
14.46s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.37s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
9.21s First CPU Idle
9.21s Time To Interactive
10.58s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
6s Visually Complete
11.17s First CPU Idle
11.17s Time To Interactive
16.55s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2s Last Painted Hero
3.53s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Visually Complete
8.53s First CPU Idle
8.53s Time To Interactive
9.91s Fully Loaded

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#8 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Largest Contentful Paint
0.5s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
12.39s First CPU Idle
12.39s Time To Interactive
16.46s Fully Loaded

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#9 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Visually Complete
11s Last Painted Hero
15.25s First CPU Idle
15.25s Time To Interactive
29s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
9.4s Last Painted Hero
9.5s Visually Complete
9.93s First CPU Idle
9.93s Time To Interactive
25.4s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Last Painted Hero
0.96s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Visually Complete
16.89s First CPU Idle
32.4s Time To Interactive
56.38s Fully Loaded

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#12 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Last Painted Hero
9.42s First CPU Idle
9.42s Time To Interactive
16s Visually Complete
69.06s Fully Loaded

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#13 NPR
0.17s Backend
1s Start Render
3.13s Largest Contentful Paint
20.9s Last Painted Hero
20.9s Visually Complete
21.95s First CPU Idle
21.95s Time To Interactive
46.59s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.1s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.95s Largest Contentful Paint
14s Last Painted Hero
15.36s First CPU Idle
15.36s Time To Interactive
26.8s Visually Complete
31.34s Fully Loaded

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#15 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
4.29s Largest Contentful Paint
14.06s First CPU Idle
14.06s Time To Interactive
28s Visually Complete
44.7s Last Painted Hero
45.26s Fully Loaded

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#16 NEW YORK TIMES
0.13s Backend
1.4s Start Render
16.24s Largest Contentful Paint
18.85s First CPU Idle
18.85s Time To Interactive
20s Last Painted Hero
40.9s Fully Loaded
42.2s Visually Complete

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#17 REUTERS
0.14s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
33.65s First CPU Idle
33.65s Time To Interactive
44s Visually Complete
56.25s Fully Loaded

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#18 YAHOO NEWS
0.38s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.28s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
26.25s First CPU Idle
34.54s Time To Interactive
57.6s Visually Complete
68.36s Fully Loaded

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#19 CNN
0.1s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.81s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Last Painted Hero
38.4s First CPU Idle
38.4s Time To Interactive
107s Visually Complete
119.57s Fully Loaded

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