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
1.2s Start Render
1.4s Visually Complete
1.45s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
23.62s First CPU Idle
23.62s Time To Interactive
56.98s Fully Loaded

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#2 POLITICO
0.12s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Visually Complete
16.22s First CPU Idle
16.22s Time To Interactive
34.14s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
7.54s First CPU Idle
7.54s Time To Interactive
25.47s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
5.92s First CPU Idle
5.92s Time To Interactive
6.34s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
22s Last Painted Hero
35.73s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Last Painted Hero
7.9s Visually Complete
14.91s First CPU Idle
14.91s Time To Interactive
48.61s Fully Loaded

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#6 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
3.4s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
18.73s First CPU Idle
18.73s Time To Interactive
88.23s Fully Loaded

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#7 LA TIMES
0.3s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.15s Largest Contentful Paint
2.58s First CPU Idle
9.7s Last Painted Hero
9.7s Visually Complete
13.55s Time To Interactive
14.07s Fully Loaded

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#8 ESPN
0.07s Backend
4.2s Start Render
11s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
11.13s Largest Contentful Paint
14.13s First CPU Idle
14.13s Time To Interactive
41.17s Fully Loaded

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#9 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
13s Visually Complete
14s Last Painted Hero
17.97s First CPU Idle
17.97s Time To Interactive
29.32s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.62s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
15.2s Visually Complete
20.98s First CPU Idle
20.98s Time To Interactive
114.65s Fully Loaded

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#11 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.39s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.9s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
6.37s First CPU Idle
6.37s Time To Interactive
11.63s Fully Loaded
15.7s Visually Complete

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#12 BLOOMBERG
1.3s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.15s Largest Contentful Paint
18.16s First CPU Idle
18.16s Time To Interactive
19s Last Painted Hero
19.9s Visually Complete
57.93s Fully Loaded

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#13 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Last Painted Hero
12.53s First CPU Idle
12.53s Time To Interactive
23.5s Visually Complete
56.9s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.12s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3.49s Largest Contentful Paint
17.34s First CPU Idle
25s Last Painted Hero
25s Visually Complete
33.56s Time To Interactive
47.76s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.96s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
22.81s First CPU Idle
22.81s Time To Interactive
26s Visually Complete
117.04s Fully Loaded

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#16 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
1.28s Largest Contentful Paint
11.05s First CPU Idle
11.05s Time To Interactive
28.1s Visually Complete
33.36s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.16s Backend
1.4s Start Render
15.13s Largest Contentful Paint
18s Last Painted Hero
19.64s First CPU Idle
19.64s Time To Interactive
30.7s Visually Complete
41.32s Fully Loaded

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#18 YAHOO NEWS
0.44s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
16.99s First CPU Idle
16.99s Time To Interactive
59.6s Visually Complete
64.24s Fully Loaded

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