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
1s Start Render
1.97s Largest Contentful Paint
23.1s Last Painted Hero
29.15s First CPU Idle
45.56s Time To Interactive
108.1s Visually Complete
114.47s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.58s Largest Contentful Paint
12.8s Last Painted Hero
12.8s Visually Complete
15.99s First CPU Idle
15.99s Time To Interactive
19.29s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.42s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
32.78s First CPU Idle
45.7s Visually Complete
46.83s Time To Interactive
48.96s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Last Painted Hero
5.4s Visually Complete
36.09s First CPU Idle
36.09s Time To Interactive
37.52s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.95s Largest Contentful Paint
38.95s First CPU Idle
51.14s Time To Interactive
57s Last Painted Hero
58.41s Fully Loaded
60s Visually Complete

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.74s Backend
3s Start Render
4.53s Largest Contentful Paint
5.15s First CPU Idle
25.4s Last Painted Hero
25.41s Time To Interactive
26.1s Visually Complete
43.93s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
3s Start Render
3.23s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
33s Visually Complete
34.21s First CPU Idle
34.21s Time To Interactive
55.01s Fully Loaded

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#8 FORBES
0.71s Backend
2.61s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s Start Render
3.2s Last Painted Hero
25.85s First CPU Idle
61s Visually Complete
104.32s Time To Interactive
116s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.33s Backend
3.8s Start Render
4.13s First CPU Idle
7.6s Last Painted Hero
7.62s Largest Contentful Paint
81.88s Time To Interactive
92s Visually Complete
95.21s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.86s Backend
3.99s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Start Render
20.01s First CPU Idle
34.2s Last Painted Hero
34.2s Visually Complete
51.13s Time To Interactive
66.52s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.4s Backend
4.2s Start Render
7.65s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
33.19s First CPU Idle
68.5s Time To Interactive
114.87s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
4.9s Start Render
24.91s Largest Contentful Paint
43.8s First CPU Idle
67.18s Time To Interactive
69s Visually Complete
117.64s Fully Loaded

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#13 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.28s Largest Contentful Paint
28.1s Last Painted Hero
28.1s Visually Complete
32.33s First CPU Idle
32.33s Time To Interactive
58s Fully Loaded

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#14 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.18s Largest Contentful Paint
7.3s Last Painted Hero
24s Visually Complete
42.49s First CPU Idle
42.49s Time To Interactive
64.04s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.66s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Start Render
17s Last Painted Hero
17s Visually Complete
25.04s First CPU Idle
25.04s Time To Interactive
32.02s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.73s Backend
5.9s Start Render
6.8s First CPU Idle
21.37s Largest Contentful Paint
55.7s Last Painted Hero
55.7s Visually Complete
78.05s Time To Interactive
89.48s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.2s Start Render
7.04s Largest Contentful Paint
10.09s First CPU Idle
76.34s Time To Interactive
93s Last Painted Hero
110.2s Visually Complete
117.32s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.45s Backend
9.8s Start Render
10.73s First CPU Idle
11.04s Largest Contentful Paint
11.8s Last Painted Hero
47.2s Visually Complete
54.9s Time To Interactive
56.25s Fully Loaded

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