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
0.72s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.95s Largest Contentful Paint
24.2s Last Painted Hero
47.93s First CPU Idle
47.93s Time To Interactive
78.7s Visually Complete
90.29s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.2s Start Render
7.67s Largest Contentful Paint
11.9s Last Painted Hero
11.9s Visually Complete
15.45s First CPU Idle
15.45s Time To Interactive
18.85s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
6.1s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
31s Visually Complete
32.24s First CPU Idle
32.24s Time To Interactive
35.17s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
12.9s Visually Complete
45.65s First CPU Idle
45.65s Time To Interactive
49.22s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.03s Largest Contentful Paint
42.59s First CPU Idle
42.59s Time To Interactive
44s Visually Complete
60s Last Painted Hero
60.87s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.86s Backend
2.9s Start Render
4.31s Largest Contentful Paint
5.2s First CPU Idle
39.81s Time To Interactive
80.2s Visually Complete
102.47s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.32s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
33.65s First CPU Idle
33.65s Time To Interactive
54.52s Fully Loaded

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#8 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2.32s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s Start Render
8.4s Last Painted Hero
10.17s First CPU Idle
40s Visually Complete
108.07s Time To Interactive
115.66s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.97s Backend
3.3s Start Render
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.52s Largest Contentful Paint
53.94s First CPU Idle
88.8s Visually Complete
88.88s Time To Interactive
90.41s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.86s Backend
3.97s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Start Render
20.19s First CPU Idle
33s Last Painted Hero
33s Visually Complete
50.26s Time To Interactive
67.91s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.3s Start Render
7.61s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
21s Visually Complete
66.47s First CPU Idle
66.47s Time To Interactive
117.07s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.75s Backend
5s Start Render
5.75s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
25s Visually Complete
47.04s First CPU Idle
55.51s Time To Interactive
65.01s Fully Loaded

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#13 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.2s Start Render
5.4s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Visually Complete
25.4s Last Painted Hero
32.1s First CPU Idle
32.1s Time To Interactive
57.09s Fully Loaded

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#14 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.54s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Start Render
23.5s First CPU Idle
24.4s Last Painted Hero
24.4s Visually Complete
29.37s Time To Interactive
30.2s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
5.8s Start Render
31.46s Largest Contentful Paint
32.93s First CPU Idle
97.5s Visually Complete
117.9s Time To Interactive
122.61s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.1s Start Render
6.88s Largest Contentful Paint
117.02s First CPU Idle
119s Visually Complete
119.93s Time To Interactive
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.82s Backend
6.1s Start Render
20.56s Largest Contentful Paint
55s Last Painted Hero
55.1s Visually Complete
56.02s First CPU Idle
56.02s Time To Interactive
59.74s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.46s Backend
9.9s Start Render
10.99s First CPU Idle
11.4s Largest Contentful Paint
12.5s Last Painted Hero
44.6s Visually Complete
52.45s Fully Loaded
55.16s Time To Interactive

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