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
0.72s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.95s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Last Painted Hero
58.26s First CPU Idle
112.8s Visually Complete
113.04s Time To Interactive
118.46s Fully Loaded

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#2 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.5s Start Render
5.49s Largest Contentful Paint
18s Last Painted Hero
37.04s First CPU Idle
59s Visually Complete
106.13s Time To Interactive
119.86s Fully Loaded

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#3 VOX
0.35s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.92s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
11.8s Visually Complete
34.74s First CPU Idle
34.74s Time To Interactive
62.33s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.82s Largest Contentful Paint
24.06s First CPU Idle
24.06s Time To Interactive
42s Last Painted Hero
43.44s Fully Loaded
47s Visually Complete

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#5 BBC.COM
1.79s Backend
3.5s Start Render
7.65s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
34.73s First CPU Idle
34.73s Time To Interactive
35s Visually Complete
57.42s Fully Loaded

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#6 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
3.8s Start Render
3.91s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
27.5s Visually Complete
32.04s First CPU Idle
63.67s Time To Interactive
91.93s Fully Loaded

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#7 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4s Start Render
4.21s Largest Contentful Paint
49.09s First CPU Idle
65.9s Visually Complete
107.88s Time To Interactive
120.05s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.81s Backend
4.2s Start Render
32.03s Largest Contentful Paint
32.15s First CPU Idle
39.2s Visually Complete
50.74s Time To Interactive
136.38s Fully Loaded

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#9 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.3s Start Render
5.3s Largest Contentful Paint
26.5s Visually Complete
46.09s First CPU Idle
77.65s Time To Interactive
107.92s Fully Loaded

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#10 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
5.6s Start Render
27.82s Largest Contentful Paint
41.1s Visually Complete
43.34s First CPU Idle
100.93s Time To Interactive
125.01s Fully Loaded

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#11 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.6s Start Render
6.8s Largest Contentful Paint
96.5s Visually Complete
100.72s First CPU Idle
107.21s Time To Interactive
119.76s Fully Loaded

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#12 ESPN
0.78s Backend
6.7s Start Render
7.3s Largest Contentful Paint
22.78s First CPU Idle
22.8s Last Painted Hero
52.42s Time To Interactive
74.91s Fully Loaded
79.9s Visually Complete

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#13 YAHOO NEWS
5.52s Backend
7.8s Start Render
8.19s First CPU Idle
10.9s Largest Contentful Paint
10.9s Last Painted Hero
46.4s Visually Complete
51.17s Time To Interactive
59.85s Fully Loaded

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#14 FINANCIAL TIMES
8.7s Backend
10.3s Start Render
10.3s Last Painted Hero
12.25s First CPU Idle
12.71s Largest Contentful Paint
38.83s Time To Interactive
43s Visually Complete
112.57s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
2.03s Backend
10.3s Start Render
25.72s First CPU Idle
25.72s Time To Interactive
38.65s Largest Contentful Paint
61.3s Last Painted Hero
61.3s Visually Complete
119.93s Fully Loaded

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#16 LA TIMES
20.48s Backend
21s Start Render
25.33s Largest Contentful Paint
28.7s Last Painted Hero
28.7s Visually Complete
31.77s First CPU Idle
31.77s Time To Interactive
70.97s Fully Loaded

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#17 POLITICO
0.94s Backend
22.3s Start Render
22.43s Largest Contentful Paint
23.8s Visually Complete
38.99s First CPU Idle
38.99s Time To Interactive
66.2s Last Painted Hero
119.35s Fully Loaded

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#18 FORBES
0.72s Backend
37.3s Start Render
37.66s Largest Contentful Paint
37.7s Last Painted Hero
38.26s First CPU Idle
38.26s Time To Interactive
39.9s Visually Complete
61.91s Fully Loaded

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