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
0.76s Backend
0.9s Start Render
4.54s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
30.03s First CPU Idle
30.03s Time To Interactive
35s Visually Complete
52.75s Fully Loaded

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#2 USA TODAY
0.73s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.92s Largest Contentful Paint
63.82s First CPU Idle
69.75s Time To Interactive
111.4s Last Painted Hero
111.4s Visually Complete
118.13s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.55s Largest Contentful Paint
10.6s Last Painted Hero
10.6s Visually Complete
14.01s First CPU Idle
14.01s Time To Interactive
19.78s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.4s Start Render
4.87s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
63.84s First CPU Idle
63.84s Time To Interactive
107s Visually Complete
120.08s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
9.5s Last Painted Hero
14s Visually Complete
55.53s First CPU Idle
108.48s Time To Interactive
118.74s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3.19s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s Last Painted Hero
33.9s Visually Complete
41.92s First CPU Idle
41.92s Time To Interactive
43.37s Fully Loaded

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#7 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.4s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
10.04s First CPU Idle
51s Visually Complete
89.45s Fully Loaded
89.49s Time To Interactive

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.7s Backend
2.88s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Start Render
5.46s First CPU Idle
25.8s Last Painted Hero
26.3s Visually Complete
39.82s Time To Interactive
44.31s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.81s Backend
3.2s Start Render
6.17s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Last Painted Hero
25s Visually Complete
31.74s First CPU Idle
31.74s Time To Interactive
31.89s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.87s Backend
3.5s Start Render
4.52s Largest Contentful Paint
19.49s First CPU Idle
32.6s Last Painted Hero
32.6s Visually Complete
44.03s Time To Interactive
119.9s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.76s Backend
3.6s Start Render
24.71s Largest Contentful Paint
34.7s Last Painted Hero
34.7s Visually Complete
55.9s First CPU Idle
55.9s Time To Interactive
116.57s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.93s Backend
4s Start Render
18.75s Largest Contentful Paint
41.71s First CPU Idle
54.5s Last Painted Hero
54.5s Visually Complete
85.5s Time To Interactive
88.14s Fully Loaded

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#13 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.39s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
68.4s First CPU Idle
79s Time To Interactive
119s Visually Complete
119.27s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
4.6s Start Render
26.63s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
36s Visually Complete
59.01s First CPU Idle
102.18s Time To Interactive
118.68s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.9s Start Render
7.12s Largest Contentful Paint
16.4s First CPU Idle
71.4s Last Painted Hero
71.4s Visually Complete
106.19s Time To Interactive
120.05s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
7.5s Start Render
7.51s Largest Contentful Paint
29.37s First CPU Idle
29.37s Time To Interactive
29.8s Last Painted Hero
29.8s Visually Complete
39.49s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
1.46s Backend
8.1s Start Render
9.11s First CPU Idle
15.95s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
45.1s Visually Complete
53.81s Time To Interactive
55.63s Fully Loaded

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