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
1.87s Largest Contentful Paint
50s Last Painted Hero
71.54s First CPU Idle
96.31s Time To Interactive
119.6s Visually Complete
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.3s Largest Contentful Paint
9.8s Last Painted Hero
9.8s Visually Complete
14.37s First CPU Idle
14.37s Time To Interactive
18.96s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
6.12s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
30s Visually Complete
32.54s First CPU Idle
32.54s Time To Interactive
36.13s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.96s Largest Contentful Paint
40.09s First CPU Idle
40.09s Time To Interactive
58s Last Painted Hero
59s Visually Complete
61.71s Fully Loaded

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#5 FORBES
0.76s Backend
2.5s Start Render
2.85s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
30.23s First CPU Idle
97.47s Time To Interactive
98.54s Fully Loaded

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#6 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.76s Backend
2.8s Start Render
2.87s Largest Contentful Paint
5.2s First CPU Idle
26.4s Last Painted Hero
27.1s Visually Complete
30.97s Time To Interactive
34.4s Fully Loaded

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#7 NPR
0.8s Backend
2.8s Start Render
11.51s First CPU Idle
34.13s Largest Contentful Paint
78.5s Last Painted Hero
78.5s Visually Complete
116.49s Time To Interactive
119.92s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
3s Start Render
3.63s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
29s Visually Complete
32.05s First CPU Idle
32.05s Time To Interactive
50.87s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.02s Backend
3.5s Start Render
3.92s First CPU Idle
7.4s Largest Contentful Paint
7.4s Last Painted Hero
66.1s Visually Complete
67.85s Fully Loaded
71.99s Time To Interactive

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.86s Backend
4.2s Start Render
4.21s Largest Contentful Paint
32.9s Last Painted Hero
32.9s Visually Complete
43.81s First CPU Idle
43.81s Time To Interactive
57.59s Fully Loaded

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#11 VOX
0.71s Backend
4.2s Start Render
4.3s Largest Contentful Paint
6.9s Last Painted Hero
13.5s Visually Complete
31.27s First CPU Idle
58.31s Time To Interactive
61.83s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.5s Start Render
8.68s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
55.37s First CPU Idle
55.37s Time To Interactive
72.03s Fully Loaded

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#13 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
4.8s Start Render
4.94s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
42.32s First CPU Idle
42.32s Time To Interactive
73s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.2s Start Render
5.3s Visually Complete
5.32s Largest Contentful Paint
10.2s Last Painted Hero
45.14s First CPU Idle
45.14s Time To Interactive
73.13s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.65s Largest Contentful Paint
21.02s First CPU Idle
21.02s Time To Interactive
23s Last Painted Hero
23s Visually Complete
30.62s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
5.8s Start Render
26.6s Largest Contentful Paint
34.5s Visually Complete
40.64s First CPU Idle
56.3s Time To Interactive
119.4s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.1s Start Render
17.27s First CPU Idle
18.75s Largest Contentful Paint
79.11s Time To Interactive
101s Last Painted Hero
101s Visually Complete
118.15s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.44s Backend
10s Start Render
10.84s First CPU Idle
10.97s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Last Painted Hero
38.1s Visually Complete
53.24s Time To Interactive
54.99s Fully Loaded

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