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
1.4s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Visually Complete
3.2s Last Painted Hero
21.91s First CPU Idle
21.91s Time To Interactive
27.03s Fully Loaded

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#2 POLITICO
0.08s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.8s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.9s Visually Complete
21.01s First CPU Idle
21.01s Time To Interactive
26.41s Fully Loaded

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#3 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Visually Complete
8.94s First CPU Idle
8.94s Time To Interactive
10.8s Fully Loaded

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#4 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.4s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.77s Largest Contentful Paint
2.26s First CPU Idle
2.26s Time To Interactive
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.81s Fully Loaded
2.9s Visually Complete

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#5 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
2.86s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.9s Visually Complete
2.96s First CPU Idle
2.96s Time To Interactive
7.16s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
5.9s Visually Complete
9s Last Painted Hero
12.23s First CPU Idle
12.23s Time To Interactive
55.23s Fully Loaded

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#7 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.54s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Last Painted Hero
6.9s Visually Complete
20.5s First CPU Idle
20.5s Time To Interactive
22.62s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.03s Largest Contentful Paint
7.42s First CPU Idle
7.42s Time To Interactive
8s Last Painted Hero
8.3s Visually Complete
25.09s Fully Loaded

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#9 ESPN
0.08s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.51s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
9.33s First CPU Idle
9.33s Time To Interactive
10.5s Visually Complete
11.49s Fully Loaded

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#10 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.75s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Last Painted Hero
12.1s Visually Complete
29.39s First CPU Idle
29.39s Time To Interactive
37.21s Fully Loaded

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#11 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2.2s Start Render
3.44s Largest Contentful Paint
14.9s Last Painted Hero
14.9s Visually Complete
15.76s First CPU Idle
15.76s Time To Interactive
37.76s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.04s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
15s Visually Complete
16.44s First CPU Idle
16.44s Time To Interactive
26.13s Fully Loaded

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#13 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
8.89s First CPU Idle
8.89s Time To Interactive
17s Visually Complete
76.17s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Largest Contentful Paint
9.69s First CPU Idle
9.69s Time To Interactive
19s Last Painted Hero
19s Visually Complete
45.02s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.12s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.38s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
16.35s First CPU Idle
31.77s Time To Interactive
37s Visually Complete
37.27s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.02s Largest Contentful Paint
38s Last Painted Hero
38.5s Visually Complete
44.41s First CPU Idle
44.41s Time To Interactive
119.49s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.26s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.86s Largest Contentful Paint
19s Last Painted Hero
23.92s First CPU Idle
23.92s Time To Interactive
38.6s Visually Complete
51.29s Fully Loaded

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#18 YAHOO NEWS
0.48s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.57s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
23.62s First CPU Idle
35.25s Time To Interactive
58.3s Visually Complete
63.11s Fully Loaded

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