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 LA TIMES
0.8s Backend
1.1s Start Render
4.79s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
38.21s First CPU Idle
48.52s Time To Interactive
57.9s Visually Complete
63.42s Fully Loaded

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#2 USA TODAY
0.71s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.8s Last Painted Hero
1.81s Largest Contentful Paint
8.3s Visually Complete
25.97s First CPU Idle
25.97s Time To Interactive
80.82s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.2s Start Render
5.65s Largest Contentful Paint
50.37s First CPU Idle
50.37s Time To Interactive
61s Last Painted Hero
78.4s Visually Complete
119.93s Fully Loaded

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#4 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.74s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
23.9s Visually Complete
56.8s First CPU Idle
56.8s Time To Interactive
67s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.9s Largest Contentful Paint
25.68s First CPU Idle
25.68s Time To Interactive
39s Last Painted Hero
40.19s Fully Loaded
45.3s Visually Complete

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#6 YAHOO NEWS
0.97s Backend
2.7s Start Render
5.03s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Last Painted Hero
33s First CPU Idle
33s Time To Interactive
69.1s Visually Complete
80.19s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.73s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
11.1s Visually Complete
25.32s First CPU Idle
25.32s Time To Interactive
30.25s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.72s Backend
3.39s Largest Contentful Paint
3.4s Start Render
25s Last Painted Hero
25s Visually Complete
34.26s First CPU Idle
34.26s Time To Interactive
50.06s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
3.4s Start Render
3.43s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
41.8s Visually Complete
43.71s First CPU Idle
43.71s Time To Interactive
48.56s Fully Loaded

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#10 VOX
0.71s Backend
3.9s Start Render
4.88s Largest Contentful Paint
6s Last Painted Hero
6s Visually Complete
39.67s First CPU Idle
39.67s Time To Interactive
44.51s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.44s Backend
4.2s Start Render
7.49s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
17s Visually Complete
66.18s First CPU Idle
66.18s Time To Interactive
117.98s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
4.28s Largest Contentful Paint
4.3s Start Render
17s Last Painted Hero
21.8s First CPU Idle
42s Visually Complete
51.22s Time To Interactive
117.89s Fully Loaded

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#13 NPR
0.85s Backend
4.4s Start Render
4.49s Largest Contentful Paint
18s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
54.92s First CPU Idle
54.92s Time To Interactive
60.93s Fully Loaded

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#14 FINANCIAL TIMES
1s Backend
4.5s Start Render
5.95s Largest Contentful Paint
6.75s First CPU Idle
16.88s Time To Interactive
17.6s Last Painted Hero
17.6s Visually Complete
17.61s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.66s Backend
4.5s Start Render
7.36s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
31s Visually Complete
35.38s First CPU Idle
35.38s Time To Interactive
40.82s Fully Loaded

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#16 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
4.7s Start Render
4.85s Largest Contentful Paint
7.4s Visually Complete
7.9s Last Painted Hero
33.94s First CPU Idle
33.94s Time To Interactive
41.31s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.71s Backend
6s Start Render
6.59s Largest Contentful Paint
8.8s Visually Complete
41.98s First CPU Idle
81.5s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
0.77s Backend
6.2s Start Render
6.41s First CPU Idle
6.8s Last Painted Hero
6.81s Largest Contentful Paint
47.3s Visually Complete
72.26s Fully Loaded
72.57s Time To Interactive

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