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
0.71s Backend
1.38s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
8.7s Last Painted Hero
8.7s Visually Complete
18.85s First CPU Idle
18.85s Time To Interactive
24.39s Fully Loaded

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#2 FORBES
0.69s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.66s Largest Contentful Paint
11.21s First CPU Idle
29.71s Time To Interactive
42.9s Last Painted Hero
51.8s Visually Complete
80.87s Fully Loaded

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#3 USA TODAY
0.71s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.23s Largest Contentful Paint
8.3s Last Painted Hero
17.7s Visually Complete
19.54s First CPU Idle
19.54s Time To Interactive
27.77s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.7s Backend
2.8s Start Render
3.25s Largest Contentful Paint
21.9s Last Painted Hero
28.1s Visually Complete
29.4s First CPU Idle
29.4s Time To Interactive
44.32s Fully Loaded

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#5 YAHOO NEWS
0.79s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3.55s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
10.36s First CPU Idle
29.67s Time To Interactive
35.32s Fully Loaded

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#6 BLOOMBERG
0.71s Backend
3s Start Render
3.76s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
17s Visually Complete
28.22s First CPU Idle
28.22s Time To Interactive
35.25s Fully Loaded

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#7 NPR
0.98s Backend
3.7s Start Render
3.84s Largest Contentful Paint
15.3s Last Painted Hero
17.8s Visually Complete
29.31s First CPU Idle
29.31s Time To Interactive
62.51s Fully Loaded

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#8 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1s Start Render
3.85s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Last Painted Hero
5.7s Visually Complete
29.75s First CPU Idle
29.75s Time To Interactive
52.2s Fully Loaded

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#9 VOX
0.69s Backend
1.7s Start Render
3.9s Largest Contentful Paint
3.9s Last Painted Hero
4.1s Visually Complete
30.08s First CPU Idle
30.08s Time To Interactive
48.71s Fully Loaded

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#10 POLITICO
0.68s Backend
3.9s Start Render
4.09s Largest Contentful Paint
23.3s Last Painted Hero
29.71s First CPU Idle
29.71s Time To Interactive
68.9s Visually Complete
70.44s Fully Loaded

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#11 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.74s Backend
3.6s Start Render
3.97s First CPU Idle
4.13s Largest Contentful Paint
15.19s Time To Interactive
15.9s Visually Complete
15.95s Fully Loaded
16.1s Last Painted Hero

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.36s Backend
3.6s Start Render
4.78s Largest Contentful Paint
29.65s First CPU Idle
29.65s Time To Interactive
36.9s Last Painted Hero
50.2s Visually Complete
102.6s Fully Loaded

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#13 BBC.COM
0.74s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.18s Largest Contentful Paint
8.2s Last Painted Hero
8.2s Visually Complete
24.49s Fully Loaded
24.93s First CPU Idle
24.93s Time To Interactive

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#14 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.2s Start Render
6.41s Largest Contentful Paint
10.78s First CPU Idle
17.24s Time To Interactive
109s Last Painted Hero
110s Visually Complete
119.82s Fully Loaded

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#15 NEW YORK TIMES
0.7s Backend
2.2s Start Render
6.69s Largest Contentful Paint
6.7s Visually Complete
21.6s Last Painted Hero
22.94s First CPU Idle
29.36s Time To Interactive
112.63s Fully Loaded

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#16 ESPN
0.81s Backend
7.27s Largest Contentful Paint
7.3s Start Render
7.3s Last Painted Hero
7.37s First CPU Idle
28.34s Time To Interactive
34.7s Visually Complete
56.38s Fully Loaded

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#17 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
3.1s Start Render
15.56s Largest Contentful Paint
15.7s Last Painted Hero
29.8s First CPU Idle
29.8s Time To Interactive
35.6s Fully Loaded
38.6s Visually Complete

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