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 POLITICO
0.09s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.72s Largest Contentful Paint
1.9s Visually Complete
18.72s First CPU Idle
18.72s Time To Interactive
25.61s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.37s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.3s Visually Complete
17.56s First CPU Idle
17.56s Time To Interactive
20.09s Fully Loaded

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#3 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.38s Backend
1s Start Render
1.97s Largest Contentful Paint
2.26s First CPU Idle
2.26s Time To Interactive
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.8s Visually Complete
3.38s Fully Loaded

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#4 BBC.COM
0.09s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Last Painted Hero
4s Visually Complete
5.91s First CPU Idle
5.91s Time To Interactive
8.59s Fully Loaded

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#5 USA TODAY
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
3.48s First CPU Idle
3.48s Time To Interactive
3.5s Last Painted Hero
4.9s Visually Complete
68.99s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.72s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
6.4s Visually Complete
19.47s First CPU Idle
19.47s Time To Interactive
24.28s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.27s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Last Painted Hero
6.8s Visually Complete
10.54s First CPU Idle
10.54s Time To Interactive
16.56s Fully Loaded

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#8 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.98s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
15.14s First CPU Idle
15.14s Time To Interactive
28.26s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
0.73s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
8s Visually Complete
10.56s First CPU Idle
10.56s Time To Interactive
37.9s Last Painted Hero
55.8s Fully Loaded

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#10 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
7.61s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Visually Complete
9.34s First CPU Idle
9.34s Time To Interactive
23.1s Last Painted Hero
41.14s Fully Loaded

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#11 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
8.4s Visually Complete
9.54s First CPU Idle
9.54s Time To Interactive
17.41s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
10.6s Visually Complete
20.95s First CPU Idle
20.95s Time To Interactive
48.43s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
1.64s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Start Render
10.64s First CPU Idle
10.64s Time To Interactive
11.7s Last Painted Hero
11.7s Visually Complete
115.32s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.13s Backend
1.2s Start Render
6.47s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
12s Visually Complete
14.6s First CPU Idle
31.91s Time To Interactive
77.93s Fully Loaded

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#15 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.61s First CPU Idle
17.6s Time To Interactive
18.07s Fully Loaded
19.5s Visually Complete

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#16 NPR
0.08s Backend
0.9s Start Render
2.85s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Last Painted Hero
20.4s First CPU Idle
20.4s Time To Interactive
38.6s Visually Complete
41.19s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.97s Largest Contentful Paint
35.63s First CPU Idle
35.63s Time To Interactive
42.6s Visually Complete
119.14s Fully Loaded

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#18 YAHOO NEWS
0.41s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.15s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
19.22s First CPU Idle
33.45s Time To Interactive
55.9s Visually Complete
63.26s Fully Loaded

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