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
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.1s Last Painted Hero
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Visually Complete
4.91s First CPU Idle
4.91s Time To Interactive
14.22s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.8s Visually Complete
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
2.05s First CPU Idle
2.05s Time To Interactive
3.77s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1s Largest Contentful Paint
3.7s First CPU Idle
3.7s Time To Interactive
3.98s Fully Loaded
4s Last Painted Hero
4s Visually Complete

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.6s Last Painted Hero
0.63s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Visually Complete
12.03s First CPU Idle
12.03s Time To Interactive
24.53s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.5s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
3.73s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Visually Complete
9.47s First CPU Idle
9.47s Time To Interactive
24.08s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.9s Start Render
1.9s Last Painted Hero
1.94s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Visually Complete
8.68s First CPU Idle
8.68s Time To Interactive
26.19s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.27s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
8.6s Visually Complete
11.46s First CPU Idle
11.46s Time To Interactive
11.47s Fully Loaded

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#8 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.06s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
8.8s Visually Complete
10.62s First CPU Idle
10.62s Time To Interactive
17.03s Fully Loaded

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#9 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.79s Largest Contentful Paint
0.8s Start Render
9s Visually Complete
57.39s First CPU Idle
78.73s Time To Interactive
104.1s Last Painted Hero
119.46s Fully Loaded

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#10 FORBES
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.91s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Visually Complete
43.37s First CPU Idle
43.37s Time To Interactive
119.04s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.21s Backend
1.4s Start Render
19.34s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Visually Complete
21.65s First CPU Idle
21.65s Time To Interactive
54.62s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
31s Last Painted Hero
46.1s Visually Complete
49.64s First CPU Idle
57.63s Time To Interactive
120.04s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.12s Largest Contentful Paint
24.6s Last Painted Hero
43.64s First CPU Idle
43.64s Time To Interactive
50s Visually Complete
119.82s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.14s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
37.14s First CPU Idle
65.84s Time To Interactive
77.5s Last Painted Hero
77.5s Visually Complete
78.72s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.14s Backend
0.9s Start Render
13.19s First CPU Idle
13.19s Time To Interactive
84.85s Largest Contentful Paint
97.87s Fully Loaded
98.1s Last Painted Hero
98.1s Visually Complete

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#16 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1s Start Render
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
41.95s First CPU Idle
97.78s Time To Interactive
117s Visually Complete
120.37s Fully Loaded

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