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
0.73s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.15s Largest Contentful Paint
52s Last Painted Hero
56.3s Visually Complete
61.91s First CPU Idle
91.85s Time To Interactive
119.89s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.2s Start Render
9.02s Largest Contentful Paint
10.8s Last Painted Hero
10.8s Visually Complete
14.67s First CPU Idle
14.67s Time To Interactive
18.7s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.05s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
58.78s First CPU Idle
58.78s Time To Interactive
71s Visually Complete
114.09s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.08s Largest Contentful Paint
42.72s First CPU Idle
45s Visually Complete
53.52s Time To Interactive
61s Last Painted Hero
72.55s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Last Painted Hero
13.7s Visually Complete
69.72s First CPU Idle
69.72s Time To Interactive
79.25s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.71s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.44s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
10.47s First CPU Idle
24s Visually Complete
105.69s Time To Interactive
107.01s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.83s Backend
2.7s Start Render
6.48s Largest Contentful Paint
38s Last Painted Hero
58.11s First CPU Idle
58.11s Time To Interactive
58.16s Fully Loaded
61.5s Visually Complete

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#8 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
2.8s Start Render
3.7s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
32.64s First CPU Idle
32.64s Time To Interactive
54.94s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.78s Backend
3s Start Render
5.5s Largest Contentful Paint
5.83s First CPU Idle
34s Last Painted Hero
35.1s Visually Complete
35.3s Time To Interactive
39.88s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.1s Start Render
8.56s Largest Contentful Paint
55.8s Last Painted Hero
69s Visually Complete
83.38s First CPU Idle
83.38s Time To Interactive
119.82s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.88s Backend
4.3s Start Render
24.41s Largest Contentful Paint
47.8s First CPU Idle
85.52s Time To Interactive
116s Visually Complete
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
4.9s Start Render
5.36s Largest Contentful Paint
26.6s Last Painted Hero
26.6s Visually Complete
52.5s First CPU Idle
52.5s Time To Interactive
56.4s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
5.3s Start Render
28.66s Largest Contentful Paint
39.02s First CPU Idle
51.4s Visually Complete
91.42s Time To Interactive
156.75s Fully Loaded

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#14 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.52s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Start Render
19.38s First CPU Idle
19.38s Time To Interactive
21.7s Last Painted Hero
21.7s Visually Complete
28.2s Fully Loaded

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#15 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
6s Start Render
6.2s Visually Complete
6.27s Largest Contentful Paint
8.9s Last Painted Hero
43.52s First CPU Idle
43.52s Time To Interactive
72.93s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.1s Start Render
7.04s Largest Contentful Paint
13.82s First CPU Idle
111.6s Last Painted Hero
118.37s Time To Interactive
119.75s Fully Loaded
120s Visually Complete

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#17 NPR
0.9s Backend
7.4s Start Render
24.59s First CPU Idle
39.14s Largest Contentful Paint
67s Last Painted Hero
67.1s Visually Complete
69.94s Time To Interactive
81.26s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.46s Backend
9.9s Start Render
12.9s Last Painted Hero
12.98s Largest Contentful Paint
25.4s First CPU Idle
45.4s Visually Complete
51.66s Time To Interactive
53.48s Fully Loaded

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