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

See full dashboard comparing all sites >

#1 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.3s Visually Complete
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
1.58s First CPU Idle
1.58s Time To Interactive
3.57s Fully Loaded

Explore why this site is the fastest >

#2 WASHINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
10.2s Visually Complete
14.21s First CPU Idle
14.21s Time To Interactive
64.76s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#3 HUFFINGTON POST
0.18s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
4.5s Last Painted Hero
17.4s Visually Complete
37.23s First CPU Idle
37.23s Time To Interactive
61.78s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#4 YAHOO NEWS
0.21s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
21.6s Visually Complete
29.18s First CPU Idle
29.18s Time To Interactive
41.53s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#5 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

Explore this site >

#6 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
32.73s First CPU Idle
32.73s Time To Interactive
58s Visually Complete
118.45s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#7 NPR
0.32s Backend
1s Start Render
31.54s First CPU Idle
37.99s Time To Interactive
47.7s Largest Contentful Paint
61.8s Last Painted Hero
61.8s Visually Complete
71.14s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.35s Backend
1.3s Start Render
19.39s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
22.44s First CPU Idle
22.44s Time To Interactive
74s Visually Complete
119.03s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#9 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.87s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Visually Complete
2.1s Last Painted Hero
6.32s First CPU Idle
6.32s Time To Interactive
15.68s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#10 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.26s Largest Contentful Paint
3.05s First CPU Idle
3.05s Time To Interactive
3.4s Last Painted Hero
3.4s Visually Complete
3.55s Fully Loaded

Explore why this site is the slowest >

#11 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Last Painted Hero
4s Visually Complete
9.86s First CPU Idle
9.86s Time To Interactive
13.03s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#12 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.08s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.51s Largest Contentful Paint
4.5s Visually Complete
6.71s First CPU Idle
6.71s Time To Interactive
23.42s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#13 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
3.74s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Visually Complete
8.72s First CPU Idle
8.72s Time To Interactive
10.53s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#14 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.59s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
10.1s Visually Complete
14.09s First CPU Idle
14.09s Time To Interactive
49.72s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >

#15 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.46s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
21.94s First CPU Idle
21.94s Time To Interactive
88.49s Fully Loaded

Explore this site >