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 YAHOO NEWS
0.48s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
1.5s Visually Complete
34.55s First CPU Idle
34.55s Time To Interactive
62.39s Fully Loaded

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#2 POLITICO
0.11s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.59s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
8.5s First CPU Idle
8.5s Time To Interactive
33.24s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.47s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
2.5s Visually Complete
3.34s First CPU Idle
3.34s Time To Interactive
6.69s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.88s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Visually Complete
3.8s Last Painted Hero
19.04s First CPU Idle
19.04s Time To Interactive
26.88s Fully Loaded

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#5 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.47s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
2.29s First CPU Idle
2.29s Time To Interactive
2.82s Fully Loaded
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete

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#6 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.87s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
4.8s Visually Complete
5.8s Last Painted Hero
10.75s First CPU Idle
10.75s Time To Interactive
55.39s Fully Loaded

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#7 BUZZFEED
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.5s Visually Complete
15.75s First CPU Idle
15.75s Time To Interactive
37.12s Fully Loaded

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#8 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.7s Start Render
3.2s Last Painted Hero
5.68s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Visually Complete
20.01s First CPU Idle
20.01s Time To Interactive
40.18s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
0.86s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Visually Complete
22.85s First CPU Idle
29.79s Time To Interactive
64.87s Fully Loaded

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#10 FORBES
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.04s Largest Contentful Paint
9.5s Visually Complete
10s Last Painted Hero
18.88s First CPU Idle
18.88s Time To Interactive
28.41s Fully Loaded

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#11 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
10.07s First CPU Idle
10.07s Time To Interactive
14s Visually Complete
29.19s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.16s Backend
1s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
19.7s Last Painted Hero
19.7s Visually Complete
23.29s First CPU Idle
23.29s Time To Interactive
52.25s Fully Loaded

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#13 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.29s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
11.8s First CPU Idle
11.8s Time To Interactive
21.8s Visually Complete
30.38s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.8s Start Render
14.18s Largest Contentful Paint
14.59s First CPU Idle
14.59s Time To Interactive
15s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
36.07s Fully Loaded

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#15 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.38s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
24.3s Visually Complete
24.36s First CPU Idle
24.36s Time To Interactive
43.68s Fully Loaded

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#16 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
10.75s Largest Contentful Paint
19.55s First CPU Idle
19.55s Time To Interactive
26.2s Last Painted Hero
26.2s Visually Complete
31.65s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.17s Backend
1.71s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Start Render
17s Last Painted Hero
26.66s First CPU Idle
39.54s Time To Interactive
42s Visually Complete
91.93s Fully Loaded

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#18 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.99s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
39.63s First CPU Idle
39.63s Time To Interactive
119.65s Fully Loaded
120s Visually Complete

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