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
0.09s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.09s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Visually Complete
2s Last Painted Hero
6.02s First CPU Idle
6.02s Time To Interactive
15.28s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
1.3s Visually Complete
1.36s Largest Contentful Paint
1.58s First CPU Idle
1.58s Time To Interactive
3.57s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.1s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.97s Largest Contentful Paint
3.23s First CPU Idle
3.23s Time To Interactive
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete
3.47s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.4s Last Painted Hero
0.45s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Visually Complete
7.65s First CPU Idle
7.65s Time To Interactive
23.46s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.6s Last Painted Hero
4.22s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Visually Complete
8.32s First CPU Idle
8.32s Time To Interactive
10.16s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUZZFEED
0.1s Backend
0.3s Start Render
1.2s Largest Contentful Paint
3.7s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
9.99s First CPU Idle
9.99s Time To Interactive
16.39s Fully Loaded

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#7 WASHINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
0.9s Start Render
0.93s Largest Contentful Paint
1.5s Last Painted Hero
10.2s Visually Complete
14.21s First CPU Idle
14.21s Time To Interactive
64.76s Fully Loaded

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#8 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
1.8s Start Render
6.6s Largest Contentful Paint
6.7s Last Painted Hero
11.5s Visually Complete
23.11s First CPU Idle
23.11s Time To Interactive
119.27s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.18s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
4.5s Last Painted Hero
17.4s Visually Complete
37.23s First CPU Idle
37.23s Time To Interactive
61.78s Fully Loaded

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#10 YAHOO NEWS
0.21s Backend
0.7s Start Render
1.17s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
21.6s Visually Complete
29.18s First CPU Idle
29.18s Time To Interactive
41.53s Fully Loaded

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#11 VOX
0.09s Backend
1.35s Largest Contentful Paint
1.6s Start Render
1.6s Last Painted Hero
13.93s First CPU Idle
13.93s Time To Interactive
31.31s Fully Loaded
34s Visually Complete

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#12 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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#13 CNN
0.08s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.44s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
32.73s First CPU Idle
32.73s Time To Interactive
58s Visually Complete
118.45s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.32s Backend
1s Start Render
31.54s First CPU Idle
37.99s Time To Interactive
47.7s Largest Contentful Paint
61.8s Last Painted Hero
61.8s Visually Complete
71.14s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.35s Backend
1.3s Start Render
19.39s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
22.44s First CPU Idle
22.44s Time To Interactive
74s Visually Complete
119.03s Fully Loaded

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