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
1.1s Start Render
2.05s Largest Contentful Paint
69.9s Visually Complete
119.88s First CPU Idle
119.88s Time To Interactive
119.94s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.01s Largest Contentful Paint
9.3s Last Painted Hero
9.3s Visually Complete
9.96s First CPU Idle
9.96s Time To Interactive
10.18s Fully Loaded

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#3 VOX
0.73s Backend
2.9s Start Render
2.98s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
51.94s First CPU Idle
82.2s Time To Interactive
84.34s Fully Loaded

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#4 YAHOO NEWS
0.75s Backend
3s Start Render
3.35s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Last Painted Hero
37.91s First CPU Idle
68.9s Time To Interactive
116.4s Visually Complete
119.26s Fully Loaded

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#5 NPR
0.92s Backend
3.4s Start Render
8s Largest Contentful Paint
12.3s Visually Complete
48.46s First CPU Idle
58.07s Time To Interactive
72.28s Fully Loaded

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#6 WASHINGTON POST
0.82s Backend
3.5s Start Render
3.65s Largest Contentful Paint
47s Last Painted Hero
47s Visually Complete
52.77s First CPU Idle
52.77s Time To Interactive
53.24s Fully Loaded

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#7 HUFFINGTON POST
1.43s Backend
4.6s Start Render
4.66s Largest Contentful Paint
78s Visually Complete
109.84s First CPU Idle
116.29s Time To Interactive
120.14s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.87s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.38s Largest Contentful Paint
34.4s Last Painted Hero
34.4s Visually Complete
53.66s First CPU Idle
53.66s Time To Interactive
119.95s Fully Loaded

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#9 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.5s Start Render
7.76s Largest Contentful Paint
15.31s First CPU Idle
73s Visually Complete
99s Last Painted Hero
109.5s Time To Interactive
119.09s Fully Loaded

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#10 BBC.COM
0.77s Backend
0.9s Start Render
4.43s Largest Contentful Paint
16.03s First CPU Idle
16.03s Time To Interactive
16.8s Last Painted Hero
16.8s Visually Complete
16.81s Fully Loaded

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#11 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.6s Start Render
7.83s Largest Contentful Paint
29s Last Painted Hero
35.07s First CPU Idle
48.9s Visually Complete
53.21s Time To Interactive
54.86s Fully Loaded

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#12 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3.7s Last Painted Hero
3.72s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Visually Complete
32.46s First CPU Idle
32.46s Time To Interactive
42.17s Fully Loaded

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#13 ESPN
0.77s Backend
4.9s Start Render
6.44s First CPU Idle
15.71s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
42.5s Visually Complete
44.09s Time To Interactive
47.82s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
5.1s Start Render
30.3s Last Painted Hero
30.33s Largest Contentful Paint
47.72s First CPU Idle
91s Visually Complete
115.01s Time To Interactive
118.38s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.78s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.42s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
13.2s First CPU Idle
17s Visually Complete
37.24s Time To Interactive
48.34s Fully Loaded

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