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 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
1.61s First CPU Idle
1.61s Time To Interactive
3.58s Fully Loaded

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#2 YAHOO NEWS
0.22s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.03s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
14.7s Visually Complete
26.77s First CPU Idle
26.77s Time To Interactive
27.11s Fully Loaded

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#3 NPR
0.16s Backend
0.8s Start Render
6.52s Largest Contentful Paint
12.2s First CPU Idle
12.2s Time To Interactive
20.7s Fully Loaded
20.8s Last Painted Hero
20.8s Visually Complete

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#4 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.7s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
23.89s First CPU Idle
38.55s Time To Interactive
40s Visually Complete
119.84s Fully Loaded

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#5 NEW YORK TIMES
0.32s Backend
1.6s Start Render
19.19s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
31.94s First CPU Idle
31.94s Time To Interactive
57s Visually Complete
103.44s Fully Loaded

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#6 WASHINGTON POST
0.15s Backend
0.7s Start Render
41.87s Largest Contentful Paint
59.63s First CPU Idle
96.24s Time To Interactive
117.7s Fully Loaded
117.8s Last Painted Hero
117.8s Visually Complete

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#7 HUFFINGTON POST
0.16s Backend
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
5.6s Last Painted Hero
39.26s First CPU Idle
89.45s Time To Interactive
119.72s Fully Loaded
120.3s Visually Complete

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#8 THE ONION
0.09s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Visually Complete
2s Last Painted Hero
6.02s First CPU Idle
6.02s Time To Interactive
15.28s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
3.23s First CPU Idle
3.23s Time To Interactive
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
3.47s Fully Loaded

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#10 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.45s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Visually Complete
7.65s First CPU Idle
7.65s Time To Interactive
23.46s Fully Loaded

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#11 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
4.22s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Visually Complete
8.32s First CPU Idle
8.32s Time To Interactive
10.16s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUZZFEED
0.1s Backend
0.3s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
3.7s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
9.99s First CPU Idle
9.99s Time To Interactive
16.39s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.8s Start Render
6.6s Largest Contentful Paint
6.7s Last Painted Hero
11.5s Visually Complete
23.11s First CPU Idle
23.11s Time To Interactive
119.27s Fully Loaded

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#14 VOX
0.09s Backend
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
13.93s First CPU Idle
13.93s Time To Interactive
31.31s Fully Loaded
34s Visually Complete

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#15 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.67s Largest Contentful Paint
11.9s First CPU Idle
34.6s Last Painted Hero
34.6s Visually Complete
34.8s Time To Interactive
52.84s Fully Loaded

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