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
1.87s Largest Contentful Paint
26.7s Last Painted Hero
26.7s Visually Complete
56.55s First CPU Idle
56.55s Time To Interactive
95.31s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.7s Largest Contentful Paint
15.9s Last Painted Hero
15.9s Visually Complete
19.58s First CPU Idle
19.58s Time To Interactive
22.54s Fully Loaded

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#3 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
2.58s Largest Contentful Paint
12.48s First CPU Idle
77.62s Time To Interactive
83s Last Painted Hero
83s Visually Complete
119.67s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.71s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
29.5s Visually Complete
53.15s First CPU Idle
53.15s Time To Interactive
57.97s Fully Loaded

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#5 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
1.7s Start Render
7.76s Largest Contentful Paint
31.5s Last Painted Hero
70.63s First CPU Idle
70.63s Time To Interactive
79.7s Visually Complete
88s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.99s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
41.52s First CPU Idle
41.52s Time To Interactive
44.87s Fully Loaded
45s Visually Complete

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#7 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.44s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
25s Visually Complete
33.26s First CPU Idle
40.85s Time To Interactive
55.76s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.79s Backend
3.3s Start Render
4.26s Largest Contentful Paint
45.9s First CPU Idle
52.03s Time To Interactive
120s Visually Complete
184.51s Fully Loaded

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#9 VOX
0.71s Backend
3.3s Start Render
3.37s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
54.5s First CPU Idle
54.5s Time To Interactive
55.44s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.76s Backend
3.55s Largest Contentful Paint
3.6s Start Render
64.3s First CPU Idle
71.21s Time To Interactive
87s Last Painted Hero
87s Visually Complete
93.06s Fully Loaded

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#11 YAHOO NEWS
1.57s Backend
4.3s Start Render
11.33s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
59.45s First CPU Idle
93s Visually Complete
119.43s Time To Interactive
119.91s Fully Loaded

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#12 FINANCIAL TIMES
1.06s Backend
4.8s Start Render
6.68s Largest Contentful Paint
9.22s First CPU Idle
20.56s Time To Interactive
21s Last Painted Hero
21.54s Fully Loaded
21.6s Visually Complete

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#13 POLITICO
0.72s Backend
5.2s Start Render
5.35s Largest Contentful Paint
40s Last Painted Hero
40s Visually Complete
46.77s First CPU Idle
46.77s Time To Interactive
74.32s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
5.2s Start Render
26.9s Last Painted Hero
26.95s Largest Contentful Paint
32s Visually Complete
59.64s First CPU Idle
59.64s Time To Interactive
74.47s Fully Loaded

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#15 ESPN
0.74s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.4s First CPU Idle
8.67s Largest Contentful Paint
8.7s Last Painted Hero
45.03s Time To Interactive
45.52s Fully Loaded
46s Visually Complete

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#16 NPR
0.76s Backend
6s Start Render
20.32s Largest Contentful Paint
55.1s Last Painted Hero
55.1s Visually Complete
74.4s First CPU Idle
74.4s Time To Interactive
78.03s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.2s Start Render
44.92s Largest Contentful Paint
66s Visually Complete
114.19s First CPU Idle
119.69s Time To Interactive
119.92s Fully Loaded

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#18 THE ONION
0.68s Backend
6.34s Start Render
12.72s Largest Contentful Paint
21.07s Last Painted Hero
23.02s Visually Complete
52.73s First CPU Idle
52.73s Time To Interactive
81.77s Fully Loaded

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