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
0.9s Start Render
0.98s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
2.4s Last Painted Hero
8.79s First CPU Idle
8.79s Time To Interactive
16.19s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.49s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
1.75s First CPU Idle
1.75s Time To Interactive
3.57s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
18.05s First CPU Idle
18.05s Time To Interactive
51.14s Fully Loaded

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#4 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s First CPU Idle
3.3s Time To Interactive
3.5s Last Painted Hero
3.5s Visually Complete
3.64s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
4s Visually Complete
4.16s Largest Contentful Paint
8.02s First CPU Idle
8.02s Time To Interactive
9.86s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.6s Last Painted Hero
0.64s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Visually Complete
7.74s First CPU Idle
7.74s Time To Interactive
24.02s Fully Loaded

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#7 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.7s Largest Contentful Paint
7.3s Visually Complete
11.05s First CPU Idle
11.05s Time To Interactive
32.3s Fully Loaded

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#8 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
4.6s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
10.43s First CPU Idle
10.43s Time To Interactive
14.25s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.17s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.31s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
7.8s Visually Complete
18.02s First CPU Idle
18.02s Time To Interactive
23.88s Fully Loaded

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#10 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.43s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Start Render
1.5s Last Painted Hero
8.8s Visually Complete
10.88s First CPU Idle
10.88s Time To Interactive
17.66s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.15s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.84s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
10.4s Visually Complete
16.03s First CPU Idle
16.03s Time To Interactive
17.86s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
0.22s Backend
1s Start Render
5s Last Painted Hero
5.08s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Visually Complete
29.18s First CPU Idle
35.05s Time To Interactive
59.39s Fully Loaded

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#13 NEW YORK TIMES
0.22s Backend
1.3s Start Render
11.82s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
19.83s First CPU Idle
19.83s Time To Interactive
20s Visually Complete
62.02s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
1.5s Start Render
6.73s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
24.19s First CPU Idle
24.19s Time To Interactive
42.9s Visually Complete
70.43s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
11.72s First CPU Idle
11.72s Time To Interactive
39.32s Largest Contentful Paint
56s Last Painted Hero
61s Visually Complete
73.28s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.98s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
35.94s First CPU Idle
35.94s Time To Interactive
63s Visually Complete
118.21s Fully Loaded

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