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 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.3s Visually Complete
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
1.59s First CPU Idle
1.59s Time To Interactive
3.57s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.43s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.79s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Visually Complete
2.4s Last Painted Hero
7.53s First CPU Idle
7.53s Time To Interactive
16.73s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
3.23s First CPU Idle
3.23s Time To Interactive
3.6s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete
3.66s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
3.7s Last Painted Hero
3.7s Visually Complete
8.91s First CPU Idle
8.91s Time To Interactive
12.24s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.08s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.6s Last Painted Hero
0.61s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Visually Complete
7.43s First CPU Idle
7.43s Time To Interactive
24.05s Fully Loaded

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.2s Backend
1.02s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
6.5s Last Painted Hero
10.9s Visually Complete
19.32s First CPU Idle
19.32s Time To Interactive
22.89s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
3.74s Largest Contentful Paint
8.78s First CPU Idle
8.78s Time To Interactive
10.88s Fully Loaded
13.3s Visually Complete

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#8 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
27.64s First CPU Idle
34.75s Time To Interactive
117.06s Fully Loaded

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#9 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.92s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
27s Visually Complete
33.75s First CPU Idle
33.75s Time To Interactive
119.58s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.2s Backend
1.7s Start Render
13.1s Last Painted Hero
15.37s Largest Contentful Paint
18.22s First CPU Idle
18.22s Time To Interactive
31s Visually Complete
54.63s Fully Loaded

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#11 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.63s Largest Contentful Paint
18.73s First CPU Idle
18.73s Time To Interactive
33.75s Fully Loaded
38.9s Visually Complete

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#12 NPR
0.2s Backend
0.9s Start Render
24.79s First CPU Idle
24.79s Time To Interactive
48.68s Largest Contentful Paint
62.7s Last Painted Hero
62.7s Visually Complete
71.96s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
33.1s First CPU Idle
66.13s Time To Interactive
78s Last Painted Hero
78s Visually Complete
79.31s Fully Loaded

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Last Painted Hero
38.54s First CPU Idle
38.54s Time To Interactive
84.74s Fully Loaded
86s Visually Complete

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#15 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

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