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
1.1s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
11.14s First CPU Idle
50s Last Painted Hero
50s Visually Complete
66.62s Time To Interactive
117.78s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.76s Largest Contentful Paint
10.24s First CPU Idle
13.9s Last Painted Hero
13.9s Visually Complete
19.48s Time To Interactive
22.92s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
6.46s Largest Contentful Paint
29s Last Painted Hero
35s Visually Complete
48.55s First CPU Idle
48.55s Time To Interactive
52.95s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
11.5s Last Painted Hero
11.5s Visually Complete
45.57s Fully Loaded
49.13s First CPU Idle
49.13s Time To Interactive

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.77s Largest Contentful Paint
48.89s First CPU Idle
48.89s Time To Interactive
62s Last Painted Hero
62s Visually Complete
97.26s Fully Loaded

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#6 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
1.8s Start Render
7.86s Largest Contentful Paint
37.4s Last Painted Hero
104.7s Visually Complete
105.06s First CPU Idle
105.06s Time To Interactive
108s Fully Loaded

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#7 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.16s Largest Contentful Paint
2.2s Last Painted Hero
14s Visually Complete
14.77s First CPU Idle
60.66s Time To Interactive
80.67s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.72s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.79s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
29.9s Visually Complete
36.73s First CPU Idle
36.73s Time To Interactive
54.97s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.14s Backend
3.1s Start Render
8.66s Largest Contentful Paint
12.5s Last Painted Hero
36.24s First CPU Idle
66.11s Time To Interactive
89.3s Visually Complete
90.51s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.8s Backend
3.3s Start Render
19.89s First CPU Idle
28.94s Largest Contentful Paint
31.1s Last Painted Hero
31.1s Visually Complete
41.56s Time To Interactive
56.19s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
3.6s Start Render
4.92s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Last Painted Hero
77.7s Visually Complete
79.36s First CPU Idle
79.36s Time To Interactive
87.42s Fully Loaded

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#12 FINANCIAL TIMES
1.05s Backend
4.8s Start Render
6.27s Largest Contentful Paint
21.52s First CPU Idle
21.52s Time To Interactive
23s Visually Complete
32.46s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
4.9s Start Render
6.15s Largest Contentful Paint
23.86s First CPU Idle
26.2s Last Painted Hero
49.4s Visually Complete
60.59s Time To Interactive
83.16s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.5s Start Render
5.62s Largest Contentful Paint
9.2s Visually Complete
30s Last Painted Hero
37.54s First CPU Idle
37.54s Time To Interactive
61.03s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.76s Backend
5.6s Start Render
19.98s Largest Contentful Paint
25.77s First CPU Idle
51.7s Last Painted Hero
51.7s Visually Complete
58.13s Time To Interactive
82.22s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
0.66s Backend
5.8s Start Render
10.19s Largest Contentful Paint
30s Last Painted Hero
34s Visually Complete
53.82s First CPU Idle
53.82s Time To Interactive
73.13s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
0.76s Backend
5.8s Start Render
5.8s First CPU Idle
5.8s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
48s Visually Complete
54.93s Fully Loaded
58.91s Time To Interactive

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#18 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.2s Start Render
7.16s Largest Contentful Paint
107s Visually Complete
112.57s First CPU Idle
118.13s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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