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.

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#1 YAHOO NEWS
0.29s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
23.06s First CPU Idle
39.19s Time To Interactive
60.96s Fully Loaded

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#2 POLITICO
0.1s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.03s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
2.1s Visually Complete
23.46s First CPU Idle
23.46s Time To Interactive
33.96s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.1s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Visually Complete
3s Last Painted Hero
23.9s First CPU Idle
30.81s Time To Interactive
31.92s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.21s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
8.99s First CPU Idle
8.99s Time To Interactive
12.25s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
2.61s Largest Contentful Paint
3.42s First CPU Idle
3.42s Time To Interactive
7.13s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.44s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.62s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s First CPU Idle
2.3s Time To Interactive
2.83s Fully Loaded
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete

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#7 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.84s Largest Contentful Paint
7.3s Last Painted Hero
7.3s Visually Complete
9.51s First CPU Idle
9.51s Time To Interactive
25.92s Fully Loaded

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#8 ESPN
0.1s Backend
1.5s Start Render
3.6s Last Painted Hero
5.58s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Visually Complete
10.95s First CPU Idle
10.95s Time To Interactive
40.65s Fully Loaded

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#9 FORBES
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
9.5s Last Painted Hero
10s Visually Complete
15.05s First CPU Idle
15.05s Time To Interactive
27.32s Fully Loaded

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#10 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
14.72s First CPU Idle
14.72s Time To Interactive
56.53s Fully Loaded

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#11 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
10.9s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Visually Complete
22.48s First CPU Idle
22.48s Time To Interactive
27.8s Last Painted Hero
45.52s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.8s Last Painted Hero
0.87s Largest Contentful Paint
13.3s Visually Complete
24.71s First CPU Idle
24.71s Time To Interactive
76.13s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.35s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
15s Visually Complete
16.13s First CPU Idle
16.13s Time To Interactive
37.43s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.15s Backend
1.7s Start Render
7.81s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Last Painted Hero
12.67s First CPU Idle
12.67s Time To Interactive
15s Visually Complete
87.87s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.56s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
16s Visually Complete
37.55s First CPU Idle
37.55s Time To Interactive
119.91s Fully Loaded

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#16 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.78s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
10.63s First CPU Idle
10.63s Time To Interactive
23.6s Visually Complete
118.02s Fully Loaded

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#17 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
18.39s First CPU Idle
18.39s Time To Interactive
24.2s Visually Complete
50.59s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.12s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3.27s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
28.03s First CPU Idle
28.03s Time To Interactive
29s Visually Complete
47.64s Fully Loaded

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