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 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.98s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
1s Visually Complete
5.9s Last Painted Hero
12.61s First CPU Idle
12.61s Time To Interactive
12.99s Fully Loaded

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#2 YAHOO NEWS
0.43s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.52s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
22.74s First CPU Idle
54.86s Time To Interactive
67.31s Fully Loaded

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#3 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.7s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
13.48s First CPU Idle
13.48s Time To Interactive
48.75s Fully Loaded

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#4 THE ONION
0.07s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.72s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Visually Complete
2.5s Last Painted Hero
19.14s First CPU Idle
19.14s Time To Interactive
29.42s Fully Loaded

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#5 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.32s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
3.14s First CPU Idle
3.14s Time To Interactive
6.63s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.4s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.18s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s First CPU Idle
2.4s Time To Interactive
3s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete
4.5s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.04s Largest Contentful Paint
4.6s Last Painted Hero
4.6s Visually Complete
6.02s First CPU Idle
6.02s Time To Interactive
23.01s Fully Loaded

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#8 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Last Painted Hero
5.8s Visually Complete
28.76s First CPU Idle
28.76s Time To Interactive
118.79s Fully Loaded

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#9 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.29s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
8.47s First CPU Idle
8.47s Time To Interactive
13.44s Fully Loaded

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#10 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.46s Largest Contentful Paint
0.5s Start Render
2.1s Last Painted Hero
8.8s Visually Complete
19.36s First CPU Idle
19.36s Time To Interactive
31.87s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
9.3s Visually Complete
12.76s First CPU Idle
12.76s Time To Interactive
72.83s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
9.58s First CPU Idle
9.58s Time To Interactive
10.4s Last Painted Hero
10.4s Visually Complete
16.5s Fully Loaded

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#13 NEW YORK TIMES
0.11s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.1s Largest Contentful Paint
10.55s First CPU Idle
10.55s Time To Interactive
11s Visually Complete
28.52s Fully Loaded

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#14 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.2s Last Painted Hero
4.94s Largest Contentful Paint
9.12s First CPU Idle
9.12s Time To Interactive
18s Visually Complete
39.22s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.34s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3.31s Largest Contentful Paint
18.2s Last Painted Hero
18.2s Visually Complete
24.61s First CPU Idle
24.61s Time To Interactive
27.33s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2s Start Render
11.51s Largest Contentful Paint
14.77s First CPU Idle
14.77s Time To Interactive
15s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
37.15s Fully Loaded

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#17 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
4.1s Last Painted Hero
28.93s First CPU Idle
28.93s Time To Interactive
29.5s Visually Complete
31.77s Fully Loaded

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#18 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.99s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s Last Painted Hero
24.44s First CPU Idle
24.44s Time To Interactive
118.73s Fully Loaded
119s Visually Complete

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