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
1.2s Start Render
1.43s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Visually Complete
2.9s Last Painted Hero
29.55s First CPU Idle
29.55s Time To Interactive
53.38s Fully Loaded

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#2 POLITICO
0.18s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Last Painted Hero
2s Visually Complete
18.83s First CPU Idle
18.83s Time To Interactive
33.43s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
2.66s Largest Contentful Paint
3.56s First CPU Idle
3.56s Time To Interactive
14.41s Fully Loaded

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#4 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.37s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
2.41s First CPU Idle
2.41s Time To Interactive
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.97s Fully Loaded
3s Visually Complete

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#5 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
15.46s First CPU Idle
15.46s Time To Interactive
17.69s Fully Loaded

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#6 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
4.63s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Last Painted Hero
5.7s Visually Complete
9.65s First CPU Idle
9.65s Time To Interactive
11.2s Fully Loaded

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#7 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Last Painted Hero
0.98s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Visually Complete
25.46s First CPU Idle
31.23s Time To Interactive
48.85s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.13s Largest Contentful Paint
6.54s First CPU Idle
6.54s Time To Interactive
8.1s Last Painted Hero
8.1s Visually Complete
24.38s Fully Loaded

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#9 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.58s Largest Contentful Paint
0.6s Last Painted Hero
9.4s Visually Complete
13.57s First CPU Idle
13.57s Time To Interactive
45.23s Fully Loaded

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#10 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.77s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
10.5s Visually Complete
11.4s First CPU Idle
11.4s Time To Interactive
118.5s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.69s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
10.5s Visually Complete
15.13s First CPU Idle
15.13s Time To Interactive
56.17s Fully Loaded

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#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.11s Backend
1.5s Start Render
6.61s Largest Contentful Paint
10s Last Painted Hero
13.45s First CPU Idle
13.45s Time To Interactive
14s Visually Complete
31.65s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
2.7s Start Render
15.7s Largest Contentful Paint
15.7s Last Painted Hero
15.7s Visually Complete
16.09s First CPU Idle
16.09s Time To Interactive
37.3s Fully Loaded

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#14 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
8.69s First CPU Idle
8.69s Time To Interactive
21s Visually Complete
28.99s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.09s Backend
1s Start Render
2.98s Largest Contentful Paint
21.2s Last Painted Hero
21.2s Visually Complete
22.56s First CPU Idle
22.56s Time To Interactive
31.17s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
22.86s First CPU Idle
22.86s Time To Interactive
23s Visually Complete
119.92s Fully Loaded

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#17 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
18.75s First CPU Idle
18.75s Time To Interactive
43.7s Visually Complete
78.62s Fully Loaded

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#18 YAHOO NEWS
0.44s Backend
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
26.8s First CPU Idle
35.76s Time To Interactive
58.2s Visually Complete
64.53s Fully Loaded

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#19 REUTERS
0.16s Backend
0.83s Largest Contentful Paint
0.9s Start Render
0.9s Last Painted Hero
39.03s First CPU Idle
39.03s Time To Interactive
103.2s Visually Complete
118.52s Fully Loaded

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