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
1.1s Start Render
1.97s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Last Painted Hero
23.5s Visually Complete
45s First CPU Idle
45s Time To Interactive
119.86s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.49s Largest Contentful Paint
10.6s Last Painted Hero
10.6s Visually Complete
15.54s First CPU Idle
15.54s Time To Interactive
17.2s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.77s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
57s Visually Complete
57.18s First CPU Idle
57.18s Time To Interactive
78.34s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.79s Largest Contentful Paint
23.41s First CPU Idle
23.41s Time To Interactive
41s Last Painted Hero
42.75s Fully Loaded
47s Visually Complete

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.02s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
5.3s Visually Complete
31.81s First CPU Idle
31.81s Time To Interactive
31.95s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.35s Largest Contentful Paint
2.4s Last Painted Hero
11.44s First CPU Idle
57s Visually Complete
80.37s Time To Interactive
86.75s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.73s Backend
2.8s Start Render
3.7s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
33.2s Visually Complete
36.68s First CPU Idle
36.68s Time To Interactive
41.4s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.98s Backend
3.2s Start Render
3.63s First CPU Idle
6.9s Last Painted Hero
6.91s Largest Contentful Paint
94.3s Visually Complete
106.46s Time To Interactive
129.55s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
3.7s Start Render
4.07s Largest Contentful Paint
18.24s First CPU Idle
38s Last Painted Hero
38s Visually Complete
62.02s Time To Interactive
109.18s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.82s Backend
4.1s Start Render
36.43s Largest Contentful Paint
83.07s First CPU Idle
83.07s Time To Interactive
107.8s Visually Complete
162.68s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.3s Start Render
4.38s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
29.24s First CPU Idle
50.4s Visually Complete
74.28s Time To Interactive
96.3s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.79s Backend
4.6s Start Render
25.68s First CPU Idle
27.3s Largest Contentful Paint
69.6s Visually Complete
107.05s Time To Interactive
148.32s Fully Loaded

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#13 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.32s Largest Contentful Paint
9.6s Last Painted Hero
9.6s Visually Complete
36.58s First CPU Idle
36.58s Time To Interactive
77.45s Fully Loaded

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#14 FINANCIAL TIMES
3.19s Backend
5.2s Start Render
5.2s Last Painted Hero
7.25s First CPU Idle
10.14s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Visually Complete
26.3s Time To Interactive
40.04s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.3s Start Render
11.77s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
30s Visually Complete
61.54s First CPU Idle
68.12s Time To Interactive
88.92s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.79s Backend
5.5s Start Render
6.63s First CPU Idle
21.17s Largest Contentful Paint
60.4s Last Painted Hero
60.4s Visually Complete
67.67s Time To Interactive
84.73s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
0.74s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.6s Last Painted Hero
5.65s Largest Contentful Paint
17.89s First CPU Idle
34.6s Visually Complete
45.66s Time To Interactive
47.6s Fully Loaded

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#18 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.2s Start Render
13.54s First CPU Idle
21.27s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
45.6s Visually Complete
103.77s Time To Interactive
107.23s Fully Loaded

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