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 Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Visually Complete
2.6s Last Painted Hero
6.85s First CPU Idle
6.85s Time To Interactive
15.13s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
1.4s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Last Painted Hero
1.4s Visually Complete
1.61s First CPU Idle
1.61s Time To Interactive
3.58s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.11s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.99s Largest Contentful Paint
3.28s First CPU Idle
3.28s Time To Interactive
3.48s Fully Loaded
3.6s Last Painted Hero
3.6s Visually Complete

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#4 ESPN
0.07s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.5s Last Painted Hero
4.04s Largest Contentful Paint
4.2s Visually Complete
7.61s First CPU Idle
7.61s Time To Interactive
9.39s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.07s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.5s Last Painted Hero
0.54s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Visually Complete
7.66s First CPU Idle
7.66s Time To Interactive
23.84s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUZZFEED
0.07s Backend
0.4s Start Render
0.86s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
9.84s First CPU Idle
9.84s Time To Interactive
13.01s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.06s Backend
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Start Render
1.3s Last Painted Hero
11.26s First CPU Idle
11.26s Time To Interactive
12s Visually Complete
16.17s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.22s Backend
0.9s Start Render
1.03s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
14.7s Visually Complete
26.77s First CPU Idle
26.77s Time To Interactive
27.11s Fully Loaded

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#9 BLOOMBERG
0.12s Backend
2.44s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Start Render
6.7s Last Painted Hero
18s Visually Complete
24.29s First CPU Idle
24.29s Time To Interactive
118.15s Fully Loaded

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#10 NPR
0.16s Backend
0.8s Start Render
6.52s Largest Contentful Paint
12.2s First CPU Idle
12.2s Time To Interactive
20.7s Fully Loaded
20.8s Last Painted Hero
20.8s Visually Complete

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#11 CNN
0.07s Backend
1s Start Render
1.7s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
23.89s First CPU Idle
38.55s Time To Interactive
40s Visually Complete
119.84s Fully Loaded

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#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.32s Backend
1.6s Start Render
19.19s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
31.94s First CPU Idle
31.94s Time To Interactive
57s Visually Complete
103.44s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.15s Backend
0.7s Start Render
41.87s Largest Contentful Paint
59.63s First CPU Idle
96.24s Time To Interactive
117.7s Fully Loaded
117.8s Last Painted Hero
117.8s Visually Complete

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
0.16s Backend
1.07s Largest Contentful Paint
1.1s Start Render
5.6s Last Painted Hero
39.26s First CPU Idle
89.45s Time To Interactive
119.72s Fully Loaded
120.3s Visually Complete

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#15 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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