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
0.74s Backend
1.1s Start Render
2.01s Largest Contentful Paint
37.2s Last Painted Hero
37.2s Visually Complete
54.81s First CPU Idle
76.47s Time To Interactive
91.32s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.31s Largest Contentful Paint
10.2s Last Painted Hero
10.2s Visually Complete
14.73s First CPU Idle
14.73s Time To Interactive
16.49s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.37s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
27.01s First CPU Idle
65s Visually Complete
86.14s Time To Interactive
110.3s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.81s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
6.6s Visually Complete
27.52s First CPU Idle
51.79s Time To Interactive
55.58s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.9s Last Painted Hero
2.91s Largest Contentful Paint
24.48s First CPU Idle
32.5s Visually Complete
42.56s Time To Interactive
71.89s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.73s Backend
2.4s Start Render
2.72s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
10.25s First CPU Idle
60s Visually Complete
119.65s Time To Interactive
119.89s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.71s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.23s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s First CPU Idle
33.9s Last Painted Hero
35.17s Time To Interactive
35.9s Visually Complete
50.04s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
3s Start Render
7.12s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
34.55s First CPU Idle
34.55s Time To Interactive
35s Visually Complete
52.02s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.01s Backend
3.2s Start Render
3.47s First CPU Idle
7.93s Largest Contentful Paint
11.5s Last Painted Hero
35s Visually Complete
46.66s Time To Interactive
46.8s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.2s Start Render
4.26s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
42s Visually Complete
61.69s First CPU Idle
69.06s Time To Interactive
84.97s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.79s Backend
4.3s Start Render
4.79s Largest Contentful Paint
16.52s First CPU Idle
36s Last Painted Hero
36s Visually Complete
51.56s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
4.6s Start Render
29.64s Largest Contentful Paint
35.06s First CPU Idle
119.48s Time To Interactive
119.6s Visually Complete
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#13 NPR
1.07s Backend
4.8s Start Render
20.96s First CPU Idle
34.19s Largest Contentful Paint
58.51s Time To Interactive
58.7s Last Painted Hero
58.9s Visually Complete
67.58s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.72s Backend
5.3s Start Render
5.55s Largest Contentful Paint
10.3s Last Painted Hero
10.3s Visually Complete
56.03s First CPU Idle
56.03s Time To Interactive
71.21s Fully Loaded

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#15 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
5.3s Start Render
24.82s Largest Contentful Paint
25.6s Last Painted Hero
25.6s Visually Complete
46.41s First CPU Idle
46.41s Time To Interactive
60.16s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.2s Start Render
6.31s Largest Contentful Paint
96.9s Visually Complete
102.41s First CPU Idle
119.71s Time To Interactive
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#17 THE ONION
0.68s Backend
7.7s Start Render
7.73s Largest Contentful Paint
9.8s Visually Complete
30.54s First CPU Idle
30.54s Time To Interactive
31.3s Last Painted Hero
38.05s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.46s Backend
10.1s Start Render
10.68s Largest Contentful Paint
11.13s First CPU Idle
12.3s Last Painted Hero
51.6s Visually Complete
61.39s Time To Interactive
61.74s Fully Loaded

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