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 BBC.COM
0.78s Backend
1s Start Render
4.76s Largest Contentful Paint
16.22s First CPU Idle
16.22s Time To Interactive
17.02s Fully Loaded
17.1s Last Painted Hero
17.1s Visually Complete

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#2 USA TODAY
0.81s Backend
1s Start Render
1.94s Largest Contentful Paint
15.01s First CPU Idle
40.6s Last Painted Hero
55s Visually Complete
57.25s Time To Interactive
106.1s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
9.41s Largest Contentful Paint
10.3s Last Painted Hero
10.3s Visually Complete
10.58s First CPU Idle
10.58s Time To Interactive
11.13s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.74s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.33s Largest Contentful Paint
35s Last Painted Hero
36s Visually Complete
41.76s First CPU Idle
55.43s Time To Interactive
119.36s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.09s Largest Contentful Paint
3.1s Last Painted Hero
31.51s First CPU Idle
31.51s Time To Interactive
31.7s Visually Complete
61.04s Fully Loaded

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.89s Backend
3.2s Start Render
7.8s Last Painted Hero
7.82s Largest Contentful Paint
57.8s First CPU Idle
66.23s Time To Interactive
67.8s Visually Complete
76.04s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.74s Backend
4s Start Render
4.12s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
14.1s Visually Complete
51.04s First CPU Idle
51.04s Time To Interactive
59.25s Fully Loaded

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#8 HUFFINGTON POST
1.44s Backend
4.2s Start Render
24.15s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
77.58s First CPU Idle
77.58s Time To Interactive
118.12s Fully Loaded
120s Visually Complete

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.82s Backend
4.2s Start Render
24.62s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
52.35s First CPU Idle
52.35s Time To Interactive
55.96s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.96s Backend
4.29s Largest Contentful Paint
4.3s Start Render
20.31s First CPU Idle
41.8s Last Painted Hero
41.8s Visually Complete
54.18s Time To Interactive
120.02s Fully Loaded

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#11 ESPN
0.75s Backend
4.7s Start Render
5.6s First CPU Idle
14.63s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
43.9s Visually Complete
53.71s Time To Interactive
55.44s Fully Loaded

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#12 THE ONION
0.71s Backend
5s Start Render
5.03s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Last Painted Hero
12.01s First CPU Idle
15.8s Visually Complete
37.53s Time To Interactive
45.03s Fully Loaded

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#13 NPR
0.92s Backend
5.3s Start Render
27.61s First CPU Idle
41.95s Largest Contentful Paint
65.7s Time To Interactive
66.1s Last Painted Hero
66.1s Visually Complete
67.24s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.79s Backend
6s Start Render
38.42s Largest Contentful Paint
38.5s Last Painted Hero
48.8s Visually Complete
51.43s First CPU Idle
119.28s Time To Interactive
119.91s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.5s Start Render
9.17s Largest Contentful Paint
53s Last Painted Hero
59.41s First CPU Idle
91s Visually Complete
99.55s Time To Interactive
118.35s Fully Loaded

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