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.

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#1 YAHOO NEWS
0.16s Backend
1s Start Render
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
3.43s First CPU Idle
3.43s Time To Interactive
113.59s Fully Loaded

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#2 THE ONION
0.06s Backend
1s Start Render
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Visually Complete
2.9s Last Painted Hero
20.61s First CPU Idle
40.65s Time To Interactive
64.36s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
1.36s Backend
1.7s Start Render
6.14s Largest Contentful Paint
6.16s First CPU Idle
6.16s Time To Interactive
6.2s Last Painted Hero
6.2s Visually Complete
8.32s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
5.58s First CPU Idle
5.58s Time To Interactive
5.93s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Visually Complete
22s Last Painted Hero
35.29s Fully Loaded

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#5 FINANCIAL TIMES
1.15s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.26s Largest Contentful Paint
6.9s Last Painted Hero
6.9s Visually Complete
6.96s First CPU Idle
6.96s Time To Interactive
23.5s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
17.75s First CPU Idle
31.88s Time To Interactive
88.15s Fully Loaded

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#7 ESPN
0.1s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.51s Largest Contentful Paint
3.9s Last Painted Hero
7.01s First CPU Idle
7.01s Time To Interactive
9.2s Visually Complete
37.19s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.31s Backend
1s Start Render
1.29s Largest Contentful Paint
15.1s Last Painted Hero
15.1s Visually Complete
16.26s First CPU Idle
16.26s Time To Interactive
32.15s Fully Loaded

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#9 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.15s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
10.27s First CPU Idle
10.27s Time To Interactive
21.3s Visually Complete
55.35s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.03s Backend
21.27s Largest Contentful Paint
21.3s Start Render
23.1s Last Painted Hero
23.4s Visually Complete
48.94s First CPU Idle
48.94s Time To Interactive
117.77s Fully Loaded

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#11 POLITICO
3.42s Backend
23.4s Start Render
23.6s Last Painted Hero
23.6s Visually Complete
23.65s Largest Contentful Paint
32.71s First CPU Idle
39.42s Time To Interactive
115.41s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.94s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
21.81s First CPU Idle
24s Visually Complete
28.47s Time To Interactive
110.46s Fully Loaded

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#13 USA TODAY
11.28s Backend
11.8s Start Render
11.89s Largest Contentful Paint
15.66s First CPU Idle
32s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
32.11s Time To Interactive
93.01s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
3.28s Backend
4.9s Start Render
16.26s Largest Contentful Paint
20.78s First CPU Idle
20.78s Time To Interactive
34.4s Last Painted Hero
34.4s Visually Complete
39.66s Fully Loaded

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#15 FORBES
0.31s Backend
7.9s Start Render
8.51s Largest Contentful Paint
8.89s First CPU Idle
8.89s Time To Interactive
22s Last Painted Hero
36s Visually Complete
71.35s Fully Loaded

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#16 NEW YORK TIMES
0.18s Backend
1.4s Start Render
13.1s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
18.42s First CPU Idle
18.42s Time To Interactive
39.3s Visually Complete
66.1s Fully Loaded

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#17 WASHINGTON POST
0.08s Backend
4.76s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Start Render
4.9s Last Painted Hero
17.64s First CPU Idle
17.64s Time To Interactive
77.6s Visually Complete
94.1s Fully Loaded

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#18 BLOOMBERG
0.11s Backend
7.9s Start Render
8.13s Largest Contentful Paint
19s Last Painted Hero
40.85s First CPU Idle
40.85s Time To Interactive
93.5s Visually Complete
106s Fully Loaded

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