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
1s Start Render
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
24.8s Last Painted Hero
40.06s First CPU Idle
47.75s Time To Interactive
77.9s Visually Complete
86.63s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.3s Start Render
7.65s Largest Contentful Paint
12.1s Last Painted Hero
12.1s Visually Complete
15.71s First CPU Idle
15.71s Time To Interactive
19.72s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.18s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
32.47s First CPU Idle
32.47s Time To Interactive
68s Visually Complete
71.01s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.73s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
39.53s First CPU Idle
39.53s Time To Interactive
39.84s Fully Loaded

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#5 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.36s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Last Painted Hero
25.76s First CPU Idle
57s Visually Complete
101.18s Time To Interactive
112.2s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
2.1s Start Render
3s Largest Contentful Paint
42.13s First CPU Idle
42.13s Time To Interactive
44s Visually Complete
59s Last Painted Hero
64.78s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.76s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
31s Visually Complete
32.85s First CPU Idle
32.85s Time To Interactive
53.94s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.73s Backend
3.1s Start Render
4.84s Largest Contentful Paint
8.39s First CPU Idle
33.32s Time To Interactive
68.3s Visually Complete
86.74s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.08s Backend
3.3s Start Render
3.74s First CPU Idle
6.8s Last Painted Hero
6.83s Largest Contentful Paint
88.94s Time To Interactive
112s Visually Complete
112.69s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.84s Backend
3.7s Start Render
36.45s Largest Contentful Paint
44.55s First CPU Idle
44.55s Time To Interactive
104s Visually Complete
142.56s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.3s Start Render
4.4s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
35.13s First CPU Idle
62.87s Time To Interactive
101.85s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.14s Largest Contentful Paint
43.5s Last Painted Hero
43.5s Visually Complete
46.02s First CPU Idle
52.71s Time To Interactive
64.77s Fully Loaded

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#13 THE ONION
0.66s Backend
5.7s Start Render
5.71s Largest Contentful Paint
19.5s Last Painted Hero
19.5s Visually Complete
21.1s First CPU Idle
28.86s Time To Interactive
30.19s Fully Loaded

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#14 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.2s Start Render
6.37s Largest Contentful Paint
15.52s First CPU Idle
75.19s Time To Interactive
95s Last Painted Hero
111s Visually Complete
118.47s Fully Loaded

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#15 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
6.3s Start Render
6.44s Largest Contentful Paint
9.2s Last Painted Hero
30.8s Visually Complete
35.36s First CPU Idle
35.36s Time To Interactive
47.76s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.8s Backend
6.3s Start Render
7.91s First CPU Idle
7.91s Time To Interactive
33.04s Largest Contentful Paint
64.9s Last Painted Hero
64.9s Visually Complete
75.38s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
2.44s Backend
9.2s Start Render
30.64s Largest Contentful Paint
33s Visually Complete
54.54s First CPU Idle
119.99s Fully Loaded
120.01s Time To Interactive

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#18 ESPN
1.48s Backend
9.8s Start Render
10.88s First CPU Idle
11.08s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
39.1s Visually Complete
49.58s Time To Interactive
49.7s Fully Loaded

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