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
1.86s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
8s Visually Complete
15.14s First CPU Idle
39.56s Time To Interactive
81.95s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.8s Backend
1.1s Start Render
4.61s Largest Contentful Paint
17.05s First CPU Idle
28s Last Painted Hero
58.6s Visually Complete
59.42s Time To Interactive
65.06s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.89s Largest Contentful Paint
44.6s First CPU Idle
44.6s Time To Interactive
61.8s Last Painted Hero
61.8s Visually Complete
67.99s Fully Loaded

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#4 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.45s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
10.83s First CPU Idle
30.2s Visually Complete
67.02s Time To Interactive
69.08s Fully Loaded

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#5 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.87s Backend
1.7s Start Render
4.45s Largest Contentful Paint
4.61s First CPU Idle
14.63s Time To Interactive
15s Last Painted Hero
15.36s Fully Loaded
15.4s Visually Complete

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.91s Largest Contentful Paint
34.24s First CPU Idle
55.16s Time To Interactive
63s Last Painted Hero
64s Visually Complete
66.02s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.8s Backend
1.8s Start Render
7.96s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
29.28s First CPU Idle
29.28s Time To Interactive
30s Visually Complete
38.83s Fully Loaded

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#8 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
7.4s Last Painted Hero
7.4s Visually Complete
26.45s First CPU Idle
26.45s Time To Interactive
26.59s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
2.8s Start Render
4.25s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
14.1s Visually Complete
25.24s First CPU Idle
25.24s Time To Interactive
26.89s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.73s Backend
2.9s Start Render
2.93s Largest Contentful Paint
24.5s Last Painted Hero
24.5s Visually Complete
28.38s First CPU Idle
53.75s Time To Interactive
80.03s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.77s Backend
3.2s Start Render
3.59s Largest Contentful Paint
7.2s Last Painted Hero
29.17s First CPU Idle
29.17s Time To Interactive
34.7s Visually Complete
47.14s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.43s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.58s Largest Contentful Paint
13.7s Last Painted Hero
13.7s Visually Complete
63.42s First CPU Idle
63.42s Time To Interactive
119.58s Fully Loaded

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#13 NPR
0.87s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.2s Largest Contentful Paint
24.35s First CPU Idle
46s Last Painted Hero
46s Visually Complete
59.17s Time To Interactive
81.94s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.74s Backend
4.2s Start Render
5.72s Largest Contentful Paint
25.9s Last Painted Hero
25.9s Visually Complete
52.72s First CPU Idle
52.72s Time To Interactive
118.95s Fully Loaded

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#15 ESPN
0.76s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.6s First CPU Idle
5.6s Last Painted Hero
5.63s Largest Contentful Paint
38s Visually Complete
50.09s Time To Interactive
56.72s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.71s Backend
5.9s Start Render
5.98s Largest Contentful Paint
16.56s First CPU Idle
86s Last Painted Hero
86.1s Visually Complete
99.35s Time To Interactive
104.7s Fully Loaded

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#17 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
4.7s Start Render
4.88s Largest Contentful Paint
45.3s Last Painted Hero
45.3s Visually Complete
51.39s Fully Loaded
53.62s First CPU Idle
53.62s Time To Interactive

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