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 USA TODAY
0.73s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
82s Visually Complete
103.71s First CPU Idle
118.86s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#2 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.75s Backend
2s Start Render
3.2s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
23.68s First CPU Idle
34.67s Time To Interactive
39.42s Fully Loaded

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#3 YAHOO NEWS
0.87s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.75s Largest Contentful Paint
4.9s Last Painted Hero
59.78s First CPU Idle
72.7s Visually Complete
77.4s Time To Interactive
83.87s Fully Loaded

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#4 NEW YORK TIMES
0.9s Backend
3.6s Start Render
3.86s Largest Contentful Paint
39.6s Last Painted Hero
39.6s Visually Complete
57.11s First CPU Idle
57.11s Time To Interactive
119.94s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
4s Start Render
4s Largest Contentful Paint
7.4s Last Painted Hero
14.6s Visually Complete
36.27s First CPU Idle
55.1s Time To Interactive
61.49s Fully Loaded

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#6 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
1s Start Render
4.14s Largest Contentful Paint
15.96s First CPU Idle
15.96s Time To Interactive
16.74s Fully Loaded
16.8s Last Painted Hero
16.8s Visually Complete

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#7 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
5s Start Render
5.02s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Last Painted Hero
15.96s First CPU Idle
16.1s Visually Complete
42.04s Time To Interactive
45.18s Fully Loaded

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#8 BUZZFEED
0.74s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.43s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
32.34s First CPU Idle
54.28s Time To Interactive
58.05s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.81s Backend
4.1s Start Render
5.67s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
50.73s First CPU Idle
58.27s Time To Interactive
65.36s Fully Loaded

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#10 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.1s Start Render
7.74s Largest Contentful Paint
15.53s First CPU Idle
48s Last Painted Hero
80.24s Time To Interactive
85s Visually Complete
115.04s Fully Loaded

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#11 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.1s Largest Contentful Paint
9.3s Last Painted Hero
9.3s Visually Complete
10.04s First CPU Idle
10.04s Time To Interactive
10.24s Fully Loaded

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#12 ESPN
0.8s Backend
4.7s Start Render
8.86s Largest Contentful Paint
8.9s Last Painted Hero
41.9s Visually Complete
49.19s First CPU Idle
49.19s Time To Interactive
63.48s Fully Loaded

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#13 HUFFINGTON POST
1.43s Backend
4.3s Start Render
26.07s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
35s Visually Complete
110.83s First CPU Idle
110.83s Time To Interactive
111.02s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
3.35s Backend
8s Start Render
28.34s Largest Contentful Paint
28.4s Last Painted Hero
35.09s First CPU Idle
36s Visually Complete
90.53s Time To Interactive
119.83s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.94s Backend
5.3s Start Render
6.47s First CPU Idle
6.47s Time To Interactive
90.07s Largest Contentful Paint
111.8s Last Painted Hero
111.8s Visually Complete
115.77s Fully Loaded

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