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
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Last Painted Hero
1.2s Visually Complete
4.53s First CPU Idle
4.53s Time To Interactive
13.34s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
1.62s Largest Contentful Paint
2.19s First CPU Idle
2.19s Time To Interactive
3.73s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.99s Largest Contentful Paint
4.11s First CPU Idle
4.11s Time To Interactive
4.39s Fully Loaded
4.4s Last Painted Hero
4.4s Visually Complete

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.59s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Start Render
0.6s Last Painted Hero
5.4s Visually Complete
12.32s First CPU Idle
12.32s Time To Interactive
23.87s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.04s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
6s Visually Complete
19.99s First CPU Idle
19.99s Time To Interactive
26.94s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.22s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.5s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Last Painted Hero
5.62s First CPU Idle
5.62s Time To Interactive
7.5s Visually Complete
20.9s Fully Loaded

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#7 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
7.6s Visually Complete
26.22s First CPU Idle
67.88s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#8 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.45s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Visually Complete
13.79s First CPU Idle
13.79s Time To Interactive
27.5s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.19s Backend
1.19s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
8.4s Visually Complete
11.59s First CPU Idle
11.59s Time To Interactive
11.74s Fully Loaded

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#10 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
4.13s Largest Contentful Paint
8.36s First CPU Idle
8.36s Time To Interactive
12.31s Fully Loaded
13.8s Visually Complete

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
1.4s Start Render
4.76s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Visually Complete
27.86s First CPU Idle
27.86s Time To Interactive
91s Last Painted Hero
110.13s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.17s Backend
1s Start Render
10.72s Largest Contentful Paint
18.59s First CPU Idle
18.59s Time To Interactive
25.51s Fully Loaded
25.8s Last Painted Hero
25.8s Visually Complete

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#13 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
44.5s Visually Complete
46.56s First CPU Idle
46.56s Time To Interactive
65.48s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2.5s Start Render
5.94s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
24.86s First CPU Idle
24.86s Time To Interactive
46.33s Fully Loaded
47s Visually Complete

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#15 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.78s Largest Contentful Paint
23.35s First CPU Idle
40.71s Time To Interactive
53s Last Painted Hero
74.9s Visually Complete
119.66s Fully Loaded

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#16 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.78s Largest Contentful Paint
48.29s First CPU Idle
82.9s Visually Complete
92.48s Time To Interactive
115.36s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.27s Backend
1.5s Start Render
15.85s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
19.37s First CPU Idle
19.37s Time To Interactive
81.07s Fully Loaded
86.3s Visually Complete

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