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
0.9s Start Render
1.87s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
29.06s First CPU Idle
51.07s Time To Interactive
77.9s Visually Complete
86.53s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.33s Largest Contentful Paint
10.9s Last Painted Hero
10.9s Visually Complete
16.03s First CPU Idle
16.03s Time To Interactive
17.39s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.06s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Last Painted Hero
52.14s First CPU Idle
52.14s Time To Interactive
66s Visually Complete
112.85s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.87s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
40s Visually Complete
42.19s First CPU Idle
42.19s Time To Interactive
71.78s Fully Loaded

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#5 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.3s Largest Contentful Paint
8.89s First CPU Idle
99.95s Time To Interactive
109s Visually Complete
110s Last Painted Hero
118.49s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.76s Backend
2.8s Start Render
4.68s Largest Contentful Paint
5.16s First CPU Idle
27.28s Time To Interactive
95.5s Visually Complete
95.85s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.72s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.19s Largest Contentful Paint
5s Visually Complete
6.4s Last Painted Hero
28.34s First CPU Idle
50.82s Time To Interactive
57.12s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.95s Backend
3.2s Start Render
3.6s First CPU Idle
6.1s Last Painted Hero
6.15s Largest Contentful Paint
37.9s Visually Complete
44.32s Time To Interactive
52.56s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
3.5s Start Render
3.55s Largest Contentful Paint
12.27s First CPU Idle
34s Last Painted Hero
42.3s Time To Interactive
44s Visually Complete
61.64s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.85s Backend
3.7s Start Render
3.76s Largest Contentful Paint
20.63s First CPU Idle
32.6s Last Painted Hero
32.6s Visually Complete
59.56s Time To Interactive
66.31s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.1s Start Render
8.11s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
50.1s Visually Complete
64.31s First CPU Idle
69.56s Time To Interactive
119.95s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
4.7s Start Render
25.74s Largest Contentful Paint
29.31s First CPU Idle
59.8s Visually Complete
112.69s Time To Interactive
208.5s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
4.9s Start Render
4.98s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
44s Visually Complete
51.11s First CPU Idle
71.57s Time To Interactive
74.7s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.3s Start Render
5.45s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Visually Complete
9s Last Painted Hero
43.52s First CPU Idle
52.01s Time To Interactive
79.87s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.66s Backend
5.67s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Start Render
20.72s First CPU Idle
20.72s Time To Interactive
22.7s Last Painted Hero
22.7s Visually Complete
28.7s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.75s Backend
5.8s Start Render
22.75s Largest Contentful Paint
52.56s First CPU Idle
52.8s Last Painted Hero
52.8s Visually Complete
85.61s Time To Interactive
95.65s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.1s Start Render
9.12s First CPU Idle
14.88s Largest Contentful Paint
43s Last Painted Hero
43s Visually Complete
119.26s Time To Interactive
119.94s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.44s Backend
9.9s Start Render
10.79s Largest Contentful Paint
12.3s Last Painted Hero
27.52s First CPU Idle
35.8s Visually Complete
52.53s Time To Interactive
55.44s Fully Loaded

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