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
0.08s Backend
0.8s Start Render
1.05s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Visually Complete
2.4s Last Painted Hero
7.63s First CPU Idle
7.63s Time To Interactive
15.25s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.6s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.6s Visually Complete
1.94s First CPU Idle
1.94s Time To Interactive
3.85s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.82s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s First CPU Idle
3.2s Time To Interactive
3.58s Fully Loaded
3.6s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete

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#4 ESPN
0.11s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.5s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
4.4s Largest Contentful Paint
7.53s First CPU Idle
7.53s Time To Interactive
9.29s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.56s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Visually Complete
6.25s First CPU Idle
6.25s Time To Interactive
23.33s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.3s Start Render
1.15s Largest Contentful Paint
4.9s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
10.59s First CPU Idle
10.59s Time To Interactive
26.35s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.23s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
9.2s Visually Complete
21.5s First CPU Idle
21.5s Time To Interactive
26.5s Fully Loaded

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#8 BLOOMBERG
0.13s Backend
1.7s Start Render
7.6s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
12s Visually Complete
26.19s First CPU Idle
26.19s Time To Interactive
97.03s Fully Loaded

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#9 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.47s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
14s Visually Complete
16.84s First CPU Idle
16.84s Time To Interactive
50.76s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.32s Backend
1.2s Start Render
12.23s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
20.66s First CPU Idle
20.66s Time To Interactive
82.88s Fully Loaded

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#11 USA TODAY
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.81s Largest Contentful Paint
16.84s First CPU Idle
35.6s Last Painted Hero
35.6s Visually Complete
35.92s Time To Interactive
50.78s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.16s Backend
0.9s Start Render
13.84s First CPU Idle
13.84s Time To Interactive
48.07s Largest Contentful Paint
61s Last Painted Hero
61s Visually Complete
70.17s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.16s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.76s Largest Contentful Paint
49.23s First CPU Idle
49.23s Time To Interactive
61.9s Last Painted Hero
61.9s Visually Complete
66.97s Fully Loaded

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.83s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
24.45s First CPU Idle
24.45s Time To Interactive
64.88s Fully Loaded
69s Visually Complete

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#15 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
1.62s Largest Contentful Paint
33.69s First CPU Idle
38.84s Time To Interactive
99s Visually Complete
119.2s Fully Loaded

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