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 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.1s Backend
2.31s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Start Render
2.57s First CPU Idle
2.57s Time To Interactive
2.85s Fully Loaded
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.3s Visually Complete

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#2 BBC.COM
0.11s Backend
0.5s Start Render
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
1.3s Last Painted Hero
4.2s Visually Complete
8.58s First CPU Idle
8.58s Time To Interactive
9.36s Fully Loaded

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#3 YAHOO NEWS
0.15s Backend
0.7s Start Render
0.89s Largest Contentful Paint
4.7s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
13.29s First CPU Idle
13.29s Time To Interactive
43.73s Fully Loaded

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#4 BLOOMBERG
0.07s Backend
1.3s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
1.4s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
11.63s First CPU Idle
11.63s Time To Interactive
13.12s Fully Loaded

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#5 USA TODAY
0.06s Backend
0.66s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
3.5s Last Painted Hero
8.91s First CPU Idle
8.91s Time To Interactive
9.5s Visually Complete
68.39s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.06s Backend
0.94s Largest Contentful Paint
1s Start Render
1s Last Painted Hero
9.8s Visually Complete
11.81s First CPU Idle
11.81s Time To Interactive
14.01s Fully Loaded

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#7 WASHINGTON POST
1.51s Backend
2.2s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
10.1s Visually Complete
10.92s First CPU Idle
10.92s Time To Interactive
47.35s Fully Loaded

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#8 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.06s Backend
0.5s Start Render
1.16s Largest Contentful Paint
1.7s Last Painted Hero
5.66s First CPU Idle
5.66s Time To Interactive
8.86s Fully Loaded
10.3s Visually Complete

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
0.12s Backend
0.95s Largest Contentful Paint
1.2s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
10.9s Visually Complete
15.06s First CPU Idle
15.06s Time To Interactive
47.3s Fully Loaded

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#10 NPR
0.08s Backend
0.8s Start Render
3.14s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Last Painted Hero
11.6s Visually Complete
16.36s First CPU Idle
16.36s Time To Interactive
17.05s Fully Loaded

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#11 LA TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
0.65s Largest Contentful Paint
9.3s Last Painted Hero
13.82s First CPU Idle
13.82s Time To Interactive
14.2s Visually Complete
20.25s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUZZFEED
0.06s Backend
0.6s Start Render
1.2s Last Painted Hero
1.24s Largest Contentful Paint
14.4s Visually Complete
19.21s First CPU Idle
19.21s Time To Interactive
27.9s Fully Loaded

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#13 ESPN
0.05s Backend
1.7s Start Render
6.78s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s Last Painted Hero
15.8s Visually Complete
27.31s Fully Loaded
29.47s First CPU Idle
29.47s Time To Interactive

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.06s Backend
0.9s Start Render
6.15s Largest Contentful Paint
10.9s Last Painted Hero
13.34s First CPU Idle
13.34s Time To Interactive
31s Visually Complete
74.12s Fully Loaded

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#15 FORBES
0.06s Backend
0.49s Largest Contentful Paint
0.5s Start Render
12s Last Painted Hero
14.78s First CPU Idle
14.78s Time To Interactive
35.8s Visually Complete
42.96s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.06s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
22.29s First CPU Idle
22.29s Time To Interactive
22.7s Last Painted Hero
60.2s Visually Complete
117.75s Fully Loaded

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#17 POLITICO
0.08s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.33s Largest Contentful Paint
18.35s First CPU Idle
18.35s Time To Interactive
43.9s Last Painted Hero
44.4s Visually Complete
48.93s Fully Loaded

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