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.

Mobile Slow - Tested every day on an emulated mobile device at 4G Slow (1.6Mbps/768Kbps 150ms RTT). Find out more about why it's so important to test at slow speeds. Sites are sorted by Largest Contentful Paint which is when the largest element – usually image or video – in the viewport is rendered.

MEDIA SITES IN USA ON A MOBILE SLOW CONNECTION

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#1 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
7.4s Last Painted Hero
7.4s Visually Complete
27.87s First CPU Idle
27.87s Time To Interactive
28.93s Fully Loaded

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#2 USA TODAY
0.8s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.02s Largest Contentful Paint
30.3s First CPU Idle
32.4s Last Painted Hero
32.4s Visually Complete
40.62s Time To Interactive
84.01s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.46s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.83s Largest Contentful Paint
41.27s First CPU Idle
44s Visually Complete
59s Last Painted Hero
74.22s Fully Loaded
77.99s Time To Interactive

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#4 NEW YORK TIMES
0.77s Backend
2.9s Start Render
2.95s Largest Contentful Paint
19.5s First CPU Idle
30.9s Last Painted Hero
30.9s Visually Complete
44.99s Time To Interactive
54.98s Fully Loaded

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#5 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.4s Largest Contentful Paint
45.2s Last Painted Hero
45.2s Visually Complete
45.22s First CPU Idle
45.22s Time To Interactive
66.44s Fully Loaded

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#6 BBC.COM
0.77s Backend
2.7s Start Render
3.42s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
11s Visually Complete
24.87s First CPU Idle
24.87s Time To Interactive
27.31s Fully Loaded

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#7 THE ONION
0.68s Backend
4.8s Start Render
4.85s Largest Contentful Paint
10.84s First CPU Idle
29s Last Painted Hero
29s Visually Complete
54.65s Time To Interactive
64s Fully Loaded

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#8 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.2s Start Render
5.02s Largest Contentful Paint
8.7s Last Painted Hero
8.7s Visually Complete
19.08s First CPU Idle
19.08s Time To Interactive
23.9s Fully Loaded

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#9 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.1s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
27.4s Visually Complete
28.58s First CPU Idle
51.82s Time To Interactive
52.8s Fully Loaded

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#10 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5s Start Render
5.1s Visually Complete
5.12s Largest Contentful Paint
25.6s Last Painted Hero
28.81s First CPU Idle
28.81s Time To Interactive
38.7s Fully Loaded

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#11 NPR
0.79s Backend
5.19s Largest Contentful Paint
5.2s Start Render
6.03s First CPU Idle
47.5s Last Painted Hero
47.5s Visually Complete
52.76s Time To Interactive
72.27s Fully Loaded

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#12 ESPN
0.77s Backend
6.1s Start Render
6.36s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
45s Visually Complete
53.19s First CPU Idle
53.19s Time To Interactive
78.12s Fully Loaded

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#13 FINANCIAL TIMES
1.02s Backend
4.9s Start Render
6.14s First CPU Idle
6.43s Largest Contentful Paint
18.17s Time To Interactive
19s Last Painted Hero
19s Visually Complete
19.07s Fully Loaded

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#14 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.4s Start Render
6.49s Largest Contentful Paint
117.5s Visually Complete
119.68s First CPU Idle
119.84s Time To Interactive
120.18s Fully Loaded

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#15 HUFFINGTON POST
1.47s Backend
4.1s Start Render
7.54s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
17s Visually Complete
50.1s First CPU Idle
60.67s Time To Interactive
116.25s Fully Loaded

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#16 YAHOO NEWS
0.76s Backend
3.1s Start Render
9s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Last Painted Hero
70.49s First CPU Idle
70.49s Time To Interactive
98.7s Visually Complete
99.92s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
4.4s Start Render
21.3s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
28.55s First CPU Idle
66.38s Time To Interactive
74.87s Fully Loaded

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#18 FORBES
0.73s Backend
1.4s Start Render
13.37s First CPU Idle
38s Visually Complete
38.08s Largest Contentful Paint
38.1s Last Painted Hero
57.38s Time To Interactive
67.71s Fully Loaded

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