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
0.9s Start Render
0.92s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
1.9s Last Painted Hero
6.36s First CPU Idle
6.36s Time To Interactive
15.44s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.3s Visually Complete
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
1.61s First CPU Idle
1.61s Time To Interactive
3.54s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.98s Largest Contentful Paint
3.28s First CPU Idle
3.28s Time To Interactive
3.5s Last Painted Hero
3.5s Visually Complete
3.64s Fully Loaded

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#4 ESPN
0.1s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.4s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
4.24s Largest Contentful Paint
7.59s First CPU Idle
7.59s Time To Interactive
9.43s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.54s Largest Contentful Paint
4.9s Visually Complete
6.37s First CPU Idle
6.37s Time To Interactive
23.65s Fully Loaded

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#6 HUFFINGTON POST
0.18s Backend
1s Start Render
1.08s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.5s Visually Complete
68.16s First CPU Idle
68.16s Time To Interactive
106.42s Fully Loaded

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#7 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.89s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
10.64s First CPU Idle
10.64s Time To Interactive
13.3s Fully Loaded

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#8 VOX
0.09s Backend
1.96s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Start Render
2s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
12.48s First CPU Idle
12.48s Time To Interactive
27.45s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.09s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.01s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
32.97s First CPU Idle
32.97s Time To Interactive
35.84s Fully Loaded

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#10 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.7s Start Render
6.21s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Last Painted Hero
27.46s First CPU Idle
27.46s Time To Interactive
41.8s Visually Complete
49.29s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.7s Start Render
18.2s Largest Contentful Paint
19s Last Painted Hero
22.23s First CPU Idle
22.23s Time To Interactive
54s Visually Complete
92.89s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.2s Backend
1s Start Render
22.74s First CPU Idle
22.74s Time To Interactive
47.17s Largest Contentful Paint
60.9s Last Painted Hero
60.9s Visually Complete
70.33s Fully Loaded

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#13 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.4s Last Painted Hero
4.97s Largest Contentful Paint
43.22s First CPU Idle
43.22s Time To Interactive
78s Visually Complete
119.31s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.71s Largest Contentful Paint
24.37s First CPU Idle
43.64s Time To Interactive
82.5s Fully Loaded
87.7s Last Painted Hero
87.7s Visually Complete

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