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 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.74s Backend
1.7s Start Render
3.5s Largest Contentful Paint
3.5s Last Painted Hero
24s Visually Complete
30.92s First CPU Idle
30.92s Time To Interactive
37.12s Fully Loaded

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#2 WASHINGTON POST
0.78s Backend
3.4s Start Render
3.91s Largest Contentful Paint
33.7s Last Painted Hero
33.7s Visually Complete
52.71s First CPU Idle
52.71s Time To Interactive
70.43s Fully Loaded

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#3 BBC.COM
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
4.37s Largest Contentful Paint
15.4s Last Painted Hero
15.4s Visually Complete
15.71s First CPU Idle
15.71s Time To Interactive
16.14s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.72s Backend
4.5s Start Render
4.55s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Visually Complete
9s Last Painted Hero
46.36s First CPU Idle
46.36s Time To Interactive
52.67s Fully Loaded

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#5 HUFFINGTON POST
1.44s Backend
4.6s Start Render
4.81s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
27.49s First CPU Idle
87.2s Time To Interactive
90s Visually Complete
116.02s Fully Loaded

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#6 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
5.06s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Start Render
5.1s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
12.22s First CPU Idle
38.61s Time To Interactive
42.25s Fully Loaded

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#7 POLITICO
0.72s Backend
5s Start Render
5.28s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Visually Complete
8.39s First CPU Idle
25.5s Last Painted Hero
61.52s Time To Interactive
96.8s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.98s Backend
4.8s Start Render
5.83s Largest Contentful Paint
20.31s First CPU Idle
41.4s Last Painted Hero
41.4s Visually Complete
52.82s Time To Interactive
119.89s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.85s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.2s First CPU Idle
5.91s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
23s Visually Complete
27.24s Time To Interactive
32.48s Fully Loaded

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#10 BUZZFEED
0.74s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.98s Largest Contentful Paint
13.79s First CPU Idle
35s Last Painted Hero
38.8s Visually Complete
50.01s Fully Loaded
50.03s Time To Interactive

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#11 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.06s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
10.02s First CPU Idle
10.02s Time To Interactive
10.18s Fully Loaded

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#12 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.7s Start Render
8.13s Largest Contentful Paint
77.68s First CPU Idle
108s Visually Complete
117.06s Time To Interactive
117.7s Fully Loaded

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#13 ESPN
0.81s Backend
4.6s Start Render
5.98s First CPU Idle
9.3s Last Painted Hero
9.31s Largest Contentful Paint
40s Visually Complete
52.03s Time To Interactive
58.45s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
6.6s Start Render
28.72s Largest Contentful Paint
28.8s Last Painted Hero
32.99s First CPU Idle
95.7s Visually Complete
118.74s Time To Interactive
119.94s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.95s Backend
5.1s Start Render
38.22s First CPU Idle
38.22s Time To Interactive
78.46s Largest Contentful Paint
99s Last Painted Hero
99s Visually Complete
100.96s Fully Loaded

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#16 USA TODAY
0.73s Backend
1s Start Render
1.98s Largest Contentful Paint
58s Last Painted Hero
59.04s First CPU Idle
59.04s Time To Interactive
80.8s Visually Complete
87.95s Fully Loaded

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