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
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
13.29s First CPU Idle
53s Last Painted Hero
71.52s Time To Interactive
86s Visually Complete
92.81s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.74s Largest Contentful Paint
11.6s Last Painted Hero
11.6s Visually Complete
16.24s First CPU Idle
16.24s Time To Interactive
18.24s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.79s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
53s Visually Complete
58.39s First CPU Idle
58.39s Time To Interactive
119.36s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
2.77s Largest Contentful Paint
2.8s Last Painted Hero
20.6s First CPU Idle
36.6s Time To Interactive
40.79s Fully Loaded
45.8s Visually Complete

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.85s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Last Painted Hero
4.8s Visually Complete
49.68s Fully Loaded
53.53s First CPU Idle
53.53s Time To Interactive

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#6 FORBES
0.73s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.47s Largest Contentful Paint
2.5s Last Painted Hero
9.27s First CPU Idle
70s Visually Complete
79.31s Time To Interactive
87.99s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.74s Backend
2.6s Start Render
4.81s First CPU Idle
5.61s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
20.95s Time To Interactive
23.22s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.73s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.48s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
32.01s First CPU Idle
32.01s Time To Interactive
50.83s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.26s Backend
3.5s Start Render
6.68s Largest Contentful Paint
6.7s Last Painted Hero
38.58s First CPU Idle
85.1s Visually Complete
100.62s Time To Interactive
101.2s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
3.5s Start Render
3.94s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
47.01s First CPU Idle
47.01s Time To Interactive
103.55s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4s Start Render
4.22s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
30.38s First CPU Idle
50.4s Visually Complete
60.79s Time To Interactive
119.25s Fully Loaded

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#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.79s Backend
4.4s Start Render
27.62s First CPU Idle
37.69s Largest Contentful Paint
114.46s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded
120s Visually Complete

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
5.1s Start Render
27.53s Largest Contentful Paint
36s Visually Complete
41.96s First CPU Idle
91.17s Time To Interactive
149.93s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.2s Start Render
5.35s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Visually Complete
8.6s Last Painted Hero
38.12s First CPU Idle
38.12s Time To Interactive
82.86s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.9s Start Render
10.33s Largest Contentful Paint
44s Last Painted Hero
46s Visually Complete
50.5s First CPU Idle
70.02s Time To Interactive
119.89s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.73s Backend
6s Start Render
6.21s Largest Contentful Paint
19.21s First CPU Idle
97.8s Last Painted Hero
97.8s Visually Complete
108.8s Time To Interactive
113.89s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.86s Backend
6s Start Render
22.43s First CPU Idle
22.65s Largest Contentful Paint
57.3s Last Painted Hero
57.3s Visually Complete
69.53s Time To Interactive
83.05s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
0.78s Backend
6.5s Start Render
6.5s First CPU Idle
6.5s Last Painted Hero
6.52s Largest Contentful Paint
38.1s Visually Complete
45.83s Time To Interactive
60.15s Fully Loaded

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