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
0.8s Backend
1s Start Render
3.43s Largest Contentful Paint
56.24s First CPU Idle
56.24s Time To Interactive
82s Last Painted Hero
82s Visually Complete
90.82s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.37s Largest Contentful Paint
11.8s Last Painted Hero
11.8s Visually Complete
15.95s First CPU Idle
15.95s Time To Interactive
19.04s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.03s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
35.76s First CPU Idle
35.76s Time To Interactive
55s Visually Complete
57.23s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.92s Largest Contentful Paint
23.85s First CPU Idle
23.85s Time To Interactive
41s Last Painted Hero
42.39s Fully Loaded
47.4s Visually Complete

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#5 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.31s Largest Contentful Paint
8.56s First CPU Idle
18.35s Time To Interactive
26.53s Fully Loaded
31.6s Visually Complete

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#6 VOX
0.72s Backend
2.3s Start Render
2.41s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
11.88s First CPU Idle
12s Visually Complete
46.4s Time To Interactive
49.8s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.76s Backend
2.8s Start Render
5.29s First CPU Idle
5.44s Largest Contentful Paint
27.2s Last Painted Hero
27.41s Time To Interactive
27.8s Visually Complete
34.34s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.74s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.6s Largest Contentful Paint
12.31s First CPU Idle
33s Last Painted Hero
41s Visually Complete
42.16s Time To Interactive
45.33s Fully Loaded

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#9 NEW YORK TIMES
0.83s Backend
3.38s Largest Contentful Paint
3.4s Start Render
19.47s First CPU Idle
30.5s Last Painted Hero
30.5s Visually Complete
107.34s Time To Interactive
203.18s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
3.7s Start Render
3.93s Largest Contentful Paint
7.6s Last Painted Hero
32.4s Visually Complete
56.76s First CPU Idle
56.76s Time To Interactive
88.27s Fully Loaded

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#11 YAHOO NEWS
1.39s Backend
3.8s Start Render
4.14s First CPU Idle
7.2s Last Painted Hero
7.24s Largest Contentful Paint
93s Visually Complete
97.4s Time To Interactive
98.83s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.45s Largest Contentful Paint
24.81s First CPU Idle
46s Last Painted Hero
49.19s Time To Interactive
65s Visually Complete
71.96s Fully Loaded

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#13 ESPN
0.81s Backend
4.6s Start Render
5.61s Largest Contentful Paint
6.9s Last Painted Hero
20.33s First CPU Idle
32.1s Visually Complete
47.71s Time To Interactive
49.5s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
5s Start Render
25.6s Largest Contentful Paint
32.39s First CPU Idle
69s Visually Complete
117.16s Fully Loaded
119.96s Time To Interactive

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#15 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.54s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Visually Complete
8.2s Last Painted Hero
30.91s First CPU Idle
30.91s Time To Interactive
57.86s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
1.04s Backend
5.78s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Start Render
9s Visually Complete
39.4s Last Painted Hero
62.91s First CPU Idle
68.41s Time To Interactive
78.46s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.3s Start Render
7.08s Largest Contentful Paint
13.98s First CPU Idle
53s Last Painted Hero
57.05s Time To Interactive
78.3s Visually Complete
102.66s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.77s Backend
6.8s Start Render
22.2s Largest Contentful Paint
51s Last Painted Hero
51s Visually Complete
56.16s First CPU Idle
56.16s Time To Interactive
60.95s Fully Loaded

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