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
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
2.3s Last Painted Hero
6.97s First CPU Idle
6.97s Time To Interactive
15.07s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.7s Last Painted Hero
1.7s Visually Complete
1.71s Largest Contentful Paint
2.1s First CPU Idle
2.1s Time To Interactive
3.73s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
3.39s First CPU Idle
3.39s Time To Interactive
3.87s Fully Loaded
3.9s Last Painted Hero
3.9s Visually Complete

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.6s Last Painted Hero
0.62s Largest Contentful Paint
5.2s Visually Complete
9.66s First CPU Idle
9.66s Time To Interactive
23.86s Fully Loaded

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#5 ESPN
0.19s Backend
1.7s Start Render
3.3s Last Painted Hero
4.21s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Visually Complete
10.2s First CPU Idle
10.2s Time To Interactive
12.5s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.88s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
11.31s First CPU Idle
11.31s Time To Interactive
16.15s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.26s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
10s Visually Complete
39.7s First CPU Idle
39.7s Time To Interactive
57.65s Fully Loaded

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#8 VOX
0.07s Backend
1.64s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
10.3s Visually Complete
16.89s First CPU Idle
16.89s Time To Interactive
118.59s Fully Loaded

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#9 NEW YORK TIMES
0.28s Backend
1.4s Start Render
11.12s Largest Contentful Paint
14s Last Painted Hero
18.31s First CPU Idle
18.31s Time To Interactive
31s Visually Complete
53.79s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
0.13s Backend
1.18s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
9.8s Last Painted Hero
35.69s First CPU Idle
35.69s Time To Interactive
43s Visually Complete
116.78s Fully Loaded

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#11 NPR
0.19s Backend
1s Start Render
12.93s First CPU Idle
12.93s Time To Interactive
48.14s Largest Contentful Paint
61.6s Last Painted Hero
61.6s Visually Complete
70.62s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.07s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.2s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
41.26s First CPU Idle
41.26s Time To Interactive
67s Visually Complete
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.19s Backend
1s Start Render
1.12s Largest Contentful Paint
57.3s First CPU Idle
57.3s Time To Interactive
78.5s Last Painted Hero
78.5s Visually Complete
80.77s Fully Loaded

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#14 USA TODAY
0.08s Backend
0.8s Start Render
0.84s Largest Contentful Paint
14.26s First CPU Idle
34.65s Time To Interactive
95.9s Last Painted Hero
95.9s Visually Complete
113.84s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.49s Backend
2.47s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Start Render
7s Last Painted Hero
27.26s First CPU Idle
27.26s Time To Interactive
107s Visually Complete
120.01s Fully Loaded

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