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
1s Start Render
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
54s Last Painted Hero
60.26s First CPU Idle
94.18s Time To Interactive
108s Visually Complete
119.87s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
1s Start Render
4.93s Largest Contentful Paint
19.08s First CPU Idle
20.2s Last Painted Hero
20.2s Visually Complete
30.98s Fully Loaded
33.26s Time To Interactive

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#3 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.2s Start Render
8.74s Largest Contentful Paint
11.5s Last Painted Hero
11.5s Visually Complete
14.21s First CPU Idle
14.21s Time To Interactive
16.69s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.31s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
27.88s First CPU Idle
28s Visually Complete
59.36s Time To Interactive
119.89s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
3.01s Largest Contentful Paint
23.08s First CPU Idle
28.6s Visually Complete
48.69s Time To Interactive
53.41s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.74s Backend
2s Start Render
2.05s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Last Painted Hero
13s First CPU Idle
13.2s Visually Complete
56.23s Time To Interactive
59.64s Fully Loaded

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#7 FORBES
0.71s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.48s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
8.5s Visually Complete
13.33s First CPU Idle
87.14s Time To Interactive
91.86s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.71s Backend
2.5s Start Render
5.36s First CPU Idle
5.6s Last Painted Hero
5.6s Visually Complete
5.62s Largest Contentful Paint
26.93s Time To Interactive
34.44s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.83s Backend
3.2s Start Render
6.37s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
32.2s First CPU Idle
32.2s Time To Interactive
34.2s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
3.7s Start Render
3.79s Largest Contentful Paint
31.1s Last Painted Hero
31.1s Visually Complete
55.01s First CPU Idle
55.01s Time To Interactive
58.81s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.82s Backend
3.8s Start Render
5.36s Largest Contentful Paint
20.29s First CPU Idle
30.5s Last Painted Hero
30.5s Visually Complete
46.2s Time To Interactive
119.87s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.4s Backend
4.1s Start Render
7.65s Largest Contentful Paint
10.7s First CPU Idle
22s Last Painted Hero
71.37s Time To Interactive
113s Visually Complete
119.89s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
4.7s Start Render
25.76s Largest Contentful Paint
50.03s First CPU Idle
86.44s Time To Interactive
86.9s Visually Complete
140.34s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.9s Backend
5.3s Start Render
6.09s First CPU Idle
6.09s Time To Interactive
19.43s Largest Contentful Paint
54.6s Last Painted Hero
54.6s Visually Complete
89.71s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.1s Start Render
6.14s Largest Contentful Paint
7.1s Last Painted Hero
10.22s First CPU Idle
94.4s Visually Complete
105.68s Time To Interactive
112.21s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
7.4s Start Render
7.49s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s Visually Complete
27.31s First CPU Idle
27.31s Time To Interactive
27.8s Last Painted Hero
37.6s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
1.44s Backend
8.6s Start Render
9.39s Largest Contentful Paint
9.4s Last Painted Hero
26.32s First CPU Idle
46.1s Visually Complete
52.83s Time To Interactive
54.65s Fully Loaded

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