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
0.81s Backend
1s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
40.5s Last Painted Hero
59.8s First CPU Idle
99.71s Time To Interactive
108.4s Visually Complete
120.07s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
1s Start Render
4.08s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
29.3s Visually Complete
32.95s First CPU Idle
32.95s Time To Interactive
48.11s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.2s Start Render
8.43s Largest Contentful Paint
10s Last Painted Hero
10s Visually Complete
13.9s First CPU Idle
13.9s Time To Interactive
16.6s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.44s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
53.21s First CPU Idle
67.69s Time To Interactive
120.45s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.8s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
13.4s Visually Complete
27.68s First CPU Idle
69.62s Time To Interactive
70.53s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.84s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
29.7s Visually Complete
35.93s First CPU Idle
41.96s Time To Interactive
42.5s Fully Loaded

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#7 FORBES
0.73s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.4s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
13.78s First CPU Idle
63s Visually Complete
90.58s Time To Interactive
92.8s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.71s Backend
2.6s Start Render
5.79s First CPU Idle
5.86s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Last Painted Hero
5.9s Visually Complete
33.29s Time To Interactive
42.99s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.9s Backend
3.6s Start Render
3.83s First CPU Idle
6.27s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
27s Visually Complete
31.2s Time To Interactive
33.04s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.76s Backend
3.9s Start Render
27.87s First CPU Idle
28.11s Largest Contentful Paint
59.9s Last Painted Hero
59.9s Visually Complete
62.86s Time To Interactive
77.16s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.2s Start Render
4.42s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
39.24s First CPU Idle
64.84s Time To Interactive
119.26s Fully Loaded
120s Visually Complete

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
4.7s Start Render
30.22s Largest Contentful Paint
31s Visually Complete
43.1s First CPU Idle
118.92s Time To Interactive
151.22s Fully Loaded

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#13 NPR
1.06s Backend
4.8s Start Render
17.27s First CPU Idle
26.23s Largest Contentful Paint
58.9s Last Painted Hero
59s Visually Complete
65.22s Time To Interactive
89.01s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.87s Backend
5.2s Start Render
5.76s Largest Contentful Paint
27.89s First CPU Idle
41.1s Last Painted Hero
41.1s Visually Complete
54.92s Time To Interactive
119.93s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.3s Start Render
7.13s Largest Contentful Paint
17.08s First CPU Idle
64.3s Last Painted Hero
64.3s Visually Complete
110.73s Time To Interactive
114.54s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
0.68s Backend
7.56s Largest Contentful Paint
7.6s Start Render
9s Visually Complete
27.11s First CPU Idle
27.11s Time To Interactive
28.5s Last Painted Hero
37.46s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
1.46s Backend
8.3s Start Render
9.02s First CPU Idle
18.55s Largest Contentful Paint
19s Last Painted Hero
42.3s Visually Complete
51.88s Time To Interactive
54.34s Fully Loaded

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