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
0.8s Backend
1s Start Render
1.86s Largest Contentful Paint
61s Last Painted Hero
69s Visually Complete
79.49s First CPU Idle
79.49s Time To Interactive
114.19s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.77s Largest Contentful Paint
12.4s Last Painted Hero
12.4s Visually Complete
16.13s First CPU Idle
16.13s Time To Interactive
19.99s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.25s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Last Painted Hero
53.95s First CPU Idle
53.95s Time To Interactive
69s Visually Complete
118.29s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.95s Largest Contentful Paint
20.96s First CPU Idle
45.47s Time To Interactive
61s Last Painted Hero
76.34s Fully Loaded
81.4s Visually Complete

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#5 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.54s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
12.16s First CPU Idle
49s Visually Complete
75.8s Time To Interactive
84.08s Fully Loaded

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#6 BBC.COM
0.72s Backend
2.8s Start Render
3.38s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
30.8s Visually Complete
32.3s First CPU Idle
32.3s Time To Interactive
53.52s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.71s Backend
2.8s Start Render
2.88s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
51.5s Fully Loaded
55.95s First CPU Idle
55.95s Time To Interactive

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.88s Backend
3s Start Render
3.02s Largest Contentful Paint
5.02s First CPU Idle
19.7s Visually Complete
19.85s Time To Interactive
24.5s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.39s Backend
3.5s Start Render
7.7s Largest Contentful Paint
7.7s Last Painted Hero
55.19s First CPU Idle
74s Visually Complete
86.46s Time To Interactive
88.37s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
3.7s Start Render
4.82s Largest Contentful Paint
18.05s First CPU Idle
41.6s Last Painted Hero
41.6s Visually Complete
58.96s Time To Interactive
80s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.81s Backend
3.9s Start Render
4.51s Largest Contentful Paint
46.43s First CPU Idle
70.45s Time To Interactive
111s Visually Complete
119.97s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4s Start Render
8.43s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
66.72s First CPU Idle
66.72s Time To Interactive
116.93s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
4.5s Start Render
28.92s First CPU Idle
29s Visually Complete
29.04s Largest Contentful Paint
113.46s Time To Interactive
148.31s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
4.8s Start Render
4.95s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Visually Complete
28.3s Last Painted Hero
39.58s First CPU Idle
39.58s Time To Interactive
72.9s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6s Start Render
6.2s Largest Contentful Paint
9.4s First CPU Idle
77.8s Last Painted Hero
105s Visually Complete
107.73s Time To Interactive
116.31s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
6s Start Render
9.99s Largest Contentful Paint
32s Last Painted Hero
34s Visually Complete
53.28s First CPU Idle
87.49s Time To Interactive
96.16s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.89s Backend
6.2s Start Render
20.45s Largest Contentful Paint
58s Last Painted Hero
58s Visually Complete
60.62s First CPU Idle
69.1s Time To Interactive
88.53s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
0.77s Backend
6.77s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Start Render
6.8s First CPU Idle
6.8s Last Painted Hero
47.6s Visually Complete
52.48s Time To Interactive
69.51s Fully Loaded

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