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
0.08s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Visually Complete
1.71s Largest Contentful Paint
11.34s First CPU Idle
11.34s Time To Interactive
17.37s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.09s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.08s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
2s Visually Complete
4.87s First CPU Idle
4.87s Time To Interactive
5.72s Fully Loaded

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#3 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.55s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
2.6s Visually Complete
10.69s First CPU Idle
10.69s Time To Interactive
14.16s Fully Loaded

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#4 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.35s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.57s Largest Contentful Paint
2.28s First CPU Idle
2.28s Time To Interactive
3s Last Painted Hero
3s Visually Complete
4.52s Fully Loaded

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#5 USA TODAY
0.06s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.8s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
3.2s Visually Complete
5.86s First CPU Idle
5.86s Time To Interactive
63.96s Fully Loaded

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#6 WASHINGTON POST
0.09s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.14s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
9.86s First CPU Idle
9.86s Time To Interactive
43.57s Fully Loaded

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#7 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.61s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Last Painted Hero
7.6s Visually Complete
12.58s First CPU Idle
12.58s Time To Interactive
48.44s Fully Loaded

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#8 ESPN
0.06s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
6.46s Largest Contentful Paint
7.7s Visually Complete
17.72s First CPU Idle
17.72s Time To Interactive
18.72s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
8.7s Visually Complete
15.26s First CPU Idle
15.26s Time To Interactive
17.78s Fully Loaded

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#10 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Last Painted Hero
8.27s First CPU Idle
8.27s Time To Interactive
9s Visually Complete
29.02s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
4.6s Largest Contentful Paint
9.78s First CPU Idle
9.78s Time To Interactive
10s Last Painted Hero
10s Visually Complete
27.84s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUZZFEED
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
17.56s First CPU Idle
17.56s Time To Interactive
20.37s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
1.5s Start Render
9.03s Largest Contentful Paint
11.36s First CPU Idle
11.36s Time To Interactive
12.1s Last Painted Hero
12.1s Visually Complete
35.23s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.4s Backend
1s Start Render
3.03s Largest Contentful Paint
14.41s First CPU Idle
14.41s Time To Interactive
16.8s Last Painted Hero
16.8s Visually Complete
21.09s Fully Loaded

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#15 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.45s Largest Contentful Paint
1.8s Last Painted Hero
5.15s First CPU Idle
5.15s Time To Interactive
16.9s Visually Complete
119.26s Fully Loaded

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#16 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.1s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
7.08s First CPU Idle
7.08s Time To Interactive
16.4s Fully Loaded
21s Visually Complete

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#17 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.77s Largest Contentful Paint
2.8s Last Painted Hero
15.83s First CPU Idle
15.83s Time To Interactive
22s Visually Complete
117.59s Fully Loaded

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#18 YAHOO NEWS
0.38s Backend
1s Start Render
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
8.8s First CPU Idle
8.8s Time To Interactive
30s Visually Complete
62.12s Fully Loaded

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