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 Start Render which is when the first non-white content is painted in the browser.

MEDIA SITES IN USA ON A MOBILE SLOW CONNECTION

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#1 USA TODAY
0.81s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.92s Largest Contentful Paint
24.9s Last Painted Hero
29.69s First CPU Idle
66.62s Time To Interactive
82.3s Visually Complete
98.85s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.2s Start Render
7.57s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
12s Visually Complete
16.02s First CPU Idle
16.02s Time To Interactive
19.72s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.07s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
34.76s First CPU Idle
34.76s Time To Interactive
51s Visually Complete
54.61s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3.18s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
21.9s First CPU Idle
21.9s Time To Interactive
23.16s Fully Loaded

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#5 FORBES
0.71s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.66s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
30.18s First CPU Idle
53s Visually Complete
97.5s Time To Interactive
108.79s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.77s Backend
2.8s Start Render
5.15s First CPU Idle
5.24s Largest Contentful Paint
25.7s Last Painted Hero
26.7s Visually Complete
26.98s Time To Interactive
34.33s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
1.24s Backend
3s Start Render
3.25s First CPU Idle
7.2s Last Painted Hero
7.22s Largest Contentful Paint
102.1s Visually Complete
116.22s Fully Loaded
118.23s Time To Interactive

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#8 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.69s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
27.22s First CPU Idle
31s Visually Complete
35.39s Time To Interactive
51.92s Fully Loaded

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#9 VOX
0.72s Backend
3.2s Start Render
3.21s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
37.31s First CPU Idle
37.31s Time To Interactive
37.46s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.3s Start Render
7.91s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
42.66s First CPU Idle
42.66s Time To Interactive
95.95s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.1s Largest Contentful Paint
7.7s Last Painted Hero
24.1s Visually Complete
49.85s First CPU Idle
49.85s Time To Interactive
69.28s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
5.6s Start Render
24.55s Largest Contentful Paint
56.2s First CPU Idle
96.6s Visually Complete
110.93s Time To Interactive
162.69s Fully Loaded

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#13 NEW YORK TIMES
0.84s Backend
5.6s Start Render
36.68s Largest Contentful Paint
37.4s Visually Complete
46.93s First CPU Idle
84.43s Time To Interactive
182.27s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.74s Backend
6.1s Start Render
22.88s Largest Contentful Paint
52.6s Last Painted Hero
52.6s Visually Complete
55.26s First CPU Idle
63.3s Time To Interactive
65.52s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
1.54s Backend
6.4s Start Render
6.43s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Last Painted Hero
34s Visually Complete
49.31s First CPU Idle
49.31s Time To Interactive
63.47s Fully Loaded

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#16 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
6.4s Start Render
6.55s Largest Contentful Paint
6.6s Visually Complete
10s Last Painted Hero
34.54s First CPU Idle
34.54s Time To Interactive
60.39s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.8s Start Render
6.97s Largest Contentful Paint
12.48s First CPU Idle
84.28s Time To Interactive
106.2s Last Painted Hero
113s Visually Complete
119.55s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.45s Backend
10s Start Render
10.81s First CPU Idle
12.2s Last Painted Hero
12.23s Largest Contentful Paint
44.7s Visually Complete
52.22s Time To Interactive
53.26s Fully Loaded

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