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
0.81s Backend
1s Start Render
1.98s Largest Contentful Paint
79.31s First CPU Idle
111.3s Visually Complete
119.67s Time To Interactive
119.97s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
1s Start Render
5.65s Largest Contentful Paint
16.49s First CPU Idle
16.49s Time To Interactive
17.27s Fully Loaded
17.3s Last Painted Hero
17.3s Visually Complete

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#3 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.81s Largest Contentful Paint
9.2s Last Painted Hero
9.2s Visually Complete
9.72s First CPU Idle
9.72s Time To Interactive
9.89s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.91s Largest Contentful Paint
37s Last Painted Hero
37s Visually Complete
43.48s First CPU Idle
43.48s Time To Interactive
65.78s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
2s Start Render
3.48s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
21.2s First CPU Idle
34.6s Visually Complete
35.12s Time To Interactive
40.01s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.72s Backend
3.2s Start Render
3.35s Largest Contentful Paint
15.7s Last Painted Hero
15.7s Visually Complete
60.79s First CPU Idle
60.79s Time To Interactive
79.34s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
1.31s Backend
3.6s Start Render
3.8s Largest Contentful Paint
5.9s Last Painted Hero
65.34s First CPU Idle
65.34s Time To Interactive
81s Visually Complete
92.88s Fully Loaded

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#8 WASHINGTON POST
0.86s Backend
3.7s Start Render
7.13s Largest Contentful Paint
35.4s Last Painted Hero
35.4s Visually Complete
50.8s First CPU Idle
50.8s Time To Interactive
55.16s Fully Loaded

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#9 NEW YORK TIMES
0.94s Backend
4s Start Render
5.36s Largest Contentful Paint
35.9s Last Painted Hero
35.9s Visually Complete
39.46s First CPU Idle
51.08s Time To Interactive
120s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
1.44s Backend
4.5s Start Render
8.45s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
27.42s First CPU Idle
82s Visually Complete
86.11s Time To Interactive
92.87s Fully Loaded

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#11 NPR
0.91s Backend
4.8s Start Render
36.91s First CPU Idle
47.99s Time To Interactive
86.43s Largest Contentful Paint
107.5s Last Painted Hero
107.5s Visually Complete
116.19s Fully Loaded

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#12 ESPN
0.75s Backend
4.8s Start Render
6.26s First CPU Idle
12.62s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Last Painted Hero
47s Visually Complete
58.24s Time To Interactive
69.13s Fully Loaded

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#13 THE ONION
0.88s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.4s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
16s Visually Complete
16.35s First CPU Idle
36.12s Time To Interactive
41.94s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.8s Backend
5.5s Start Render
22.32s First CPU Idle
30.45s Largest Contentful Paint
31s Last Painted Hero
117.9s Visually Complete
119.24s Fully Loaded
119.57s Time To Interactive

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#15 CNN
0.74s Backend
6.5s Start Render
6.69s Largest Contentful Paint
12.67s First CPU Idle
50s Last Painted Hero
79.23s Time To Interactive
89s Visually Complete
119.56s Fully Loaded

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