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
2.75s Largest Contentful Paint
37.4s Last Painted Hero
48.68s First CPU Idle
48.68s Time To Interactive
110s Visually Complete
115.75s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.28s Largest Contentful Paint
9.8s Last Painted Hero
9.8s Visually Complete
13.97s First CPU Idle
13.97s Time To Interactive
16.66s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.5s Start Render
4.98s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
48.7s First CPU Idle
101.9s Visually Complete
115.67s Time To Interactive
118.33s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.75s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
6.1s Last Painted Hero
13.3s Visually Complete
34.74s First CPU Idle
78.24s Time To Interactive
94.13s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.95s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
31s Visually Complete
42.51s First CPU Idle
42.51s Time To Interactive
43.73s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.73s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.54s Largest Contentful Paint
13.43s First CPU Idle
80s Last Painted Hero
81s Visually Complete
88.23s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
2.8s Start Render
8.41s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
28.3s Visually Complete
31.6s First CPU Idle
31.6s Time To Interactive
33.5s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.72s Backend
3.2s Start Render
5.44s First CPU Idle
5.55s Largest Contentful Paint
25.6s Last Painted Hero
25.79s Time To Interactive
26.3s Visually Complete
34.58s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.05s Backend
3.4s Start Render
3.65s First CPU Idle
7.16s Largest Contentful Paint
40s Last Painted Hero
40s Visually Complete
68.61s Time To Interactive
80.99s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
3.8s Start Render
25.48s Largest Contentful Paint
33.23s First CPU Idle
41.3s Last Painted Hero
41.3s Visually Complete
84.44s Time To Interactive
101.39s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.85s Backend
4.1s Start Render
21.85s First CPU Idle
33.23s Largest Contentful Paint
44s Visually Complete
52.07s Time To Interactive
119.97s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.2s Start Render
4.38s Largest Contentful Paint
19s Last Painted Hero
84.9s First CPU Idle
84.9s Time To Interactive
91s Visually Complete
115.31s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
5.58s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Start Render
47.84s First CPU Idle
113.13s Time To Interactive
116.1s Visually Complete
121.52s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.94s Backend
6s Start Render
22.32s Largest Contentful Paint
51.57s First CPU Idle
65.5s Last Painted Hero
65.5s Visually Complete
98.87s Time To Interactive
105.46s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.1s Start Render
6.96s Largest Contentful Paint
84.51s First CPU Idle
115.6s Visually Complete
119.86s Time To Interactive
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
1.34s Backend
8.07s Largest Contentful Paint
8.1s Start Render
29.59s First CPU Idle
29.59s Time To Interactive
30.3s Last Painted Hero
30.3s Visually Complete
39.9s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
1.48s Backend
9s Start Render
9.24s First CPU Idle
9.43s Largest Contentful Paint
9.5s Last Painted Hero
37.8s Visually Complete
53.38s Time To Interactive
54.11s Fully Loaded

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