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
0.1s Backend
1.5s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
13.81s First CPU Idle
13.81s Time To Interactive
33.45s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
2.38s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Last Painted Hero
2.4s Visually Complete
3.12s First CPU Idle
3.12s Time To Interactive
4.36s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.29s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete
22.3s First CPU Idle
22.3s Time To Interactive
51.98s Fully Loaded

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#4 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.3s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.49s Largest Contentful Paint
4.1s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
4.51s First CPU Idle
4.51s Time To Interactive
9.53s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.49s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
15.03s First CPU Idle
15.03s Time To Interactive
31.86s Fully Loaded

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#6 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
4.6s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
20.51s First CPU Idle
20.51s Time To Interactive
36.55s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.22s Largest Contentful Paint
7.9s First CPU Idle
7.9s Time To Interactive
8s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
24.81s Fully Loaded

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#8 WASHINGTON POST
0.1s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.59s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
9.4s Visually Complete
16.95s First CPU Idle
16.95s Time To Interactive
55.87s Fully Loaded

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#9 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.9s Largest Contentful Paint
8.9s Last Painted Hero
9.5s Visually Complete
16.27s First CPU Idle
16.27s Time To Interactive
18.29s Fully Loaded

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#10 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.99s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Visually Complete
14s Last Painted Hero
17.74s First CPU Idle
17.74s Time To Interactive
29.75s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.85s Largest Contentful Paint
10.44s First CPU Idle
10.44s Time To Interactive
14.4s Visually Complete
54.51s Fully Loaded

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#12 YAHOO NEWS
0.4s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.46s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
16.6s Visually Complete
20.49s First CPU Idle
20.49s Time To Interactive
23.97s Fully Loaded

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#13 ESPN
0.08s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.69s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Last Painted Hero
10.1s First CPU Idle
10.1s Time To Interactive
16.8s Visually Complete
18.71s Fully Loaded

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#14 VOX
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1s Last Painted Hero
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
11.43s First CPU Idle
11.43s Time To Interactive
18s Visually Complete
28.23s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.18s Largest Contentful Paint
19.18s First CPU Idle
19.18s Time To Interactive
19.2s Last Painted Hero
19.2s Visually Complete
38.27s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.15s Backend
1s Start Render
4.51s Largest Contentful Paint
18.7s First CPU Idle
18.7s Time To Interactive
20s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
22.93s Fully Loaded

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#17 NEW YORK TIMES
0.16s Backend
1.3s Start Render
8.03s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
12.32s First CPU Idle
12.32s Time To Interactive
27s Visually Complete
28.95s Fully Loaded

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#18 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.08s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Last Painted Hero
28.66s First CPU Idle
28.66s Time To Interactive
35s Visually Complete
116.96s Fully Loaded

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