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
0.73s Backend
1s Start Render
1.95s Largest Contentful Paint
62s Last Painted Hero
69.65s First CPU Idle
96.8s Visually Complete
103.27s Time To Interactive
118.33s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.54s Largest Contentful Paint
11.3s Last Painted Hero
11.3s Visually Complete
13.92s First CPU Idle
13.92s Time To Interactive
19.16s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.29s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
26s Visually Complete
53.64s First CPU Idle
53.64s Time To Interactive
104.71s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Last Painted Hero
13.5s Visually Complete
30.46s First CPU Idle
53.57s Time To Interactive
85.58s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.74s Largest Contentful Paint
32s Visually Complete
42.55s First CPU Idle
42.55s Time To Interactive
42.7s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.73s Backend
2s Start Render
2.38s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
9.84s First CPU Idle
53s Visually Complete
102.25s Time To Interactive
117.69s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
2.7s Start Render
3.61s Largest Contentful Paint
32.56s First CPU Idle
32.56s Time To Interactive
40s Last Painted Hero
40s Visually Complete
43.23s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.91s Backend
3s Start Render
4.23s Largest Contentful Paint
5.53s First CPU Idle
35.6s Visually Complete
57.33s Time To Interactive
64.28s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.21s Backend
3.8s Start Render
4.05s First CPU Idle
8.2s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
62.4s Visually Complete
63.39s Time To Interactive
64.86s Fully Loaded

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#10 NPR
0.88s Backend
4s Start Render
12.5s First CPU Idle
46.61s Largest Contentful Paint
79.2s Last Painted Hero
79.2s Visually Complete
82.99s Time To Interactive
90.08s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.1s Start Render
7.9s Largest Contentful Paint
37.5s First CPU Idle
58s Last Painted Hero
61.61s Time To Interactive
72s Visually Complete
99s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
4.7s Start Render
5.77s Largest Contentful Paint
46.68s First CPU Idle
58s Visually Complete
116.06s Time To Interactive
149.62s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
5s Start Render
7.3s Last Painted Hero
23.22s Largest Contentful Paint
46.2s Visually Complete
47.81s First CPU Idle
47.81s Time To Interactive
60.82s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.84s Backend
5.3s Start Render
5.34s Largest Contentful Paint
22.45s First CPU Idle
60.9s Last Painted Hero
60.9s Visually Complete
62.62s Time To Interactive
119.93s Fully Loaded

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#15 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.3s Start Render
5.37s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Visually Complete
8.2s Last Painted Hero
43.09s First CPU Idle
43.09s Time To Interactive
71.8s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.1s Start Render
6.13s Largest Contentful Paint
20.15s First CPU Idle
115.3s Visually Complete
119.35s Time To Interactive
121.29s Fully Loaded

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#17 THE ONION
0.68s Backend
7.3s Start Render
7.38s Largest Contentful Paint
29.8s Visually Complete
29.99s First CPU Idle
29.99s Time To Interactive
30.2s Last Painted Hero
39.2s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.49s Backend
10.6s Start Render
11.05s Largest Contentful Paint
11.9s Last Painted Hero
34.8s Visually Complete
47.57s First CPU Idle
47.57s Time To Interactive
49.39s Fully Loaded

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