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
2.01s Largest Contentful Paint
11.41s First CPU Idle
33.19s Time To Interactive
35s Last Painted Hero
35s Visually Complete
85.1s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.88s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
15s Visually Complete
19.42s First CPU Idle
19.42s Time To Interactive
21.06s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
6.46s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
45.09s First CPU Idle
45.09s Time To Interactive
73s Visually Complete
113.48s Fully Loaded

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#4 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
1.6s Start Render
9.6s Largest Contentful Paint
31.7s Last Painted Hero
31.7s Visually Complete
81.85s First CPU Idle
95.25s Time To Interactive
119.6s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
12.1s Visually Complete
44.87s Fully Loaded
49.89s First CPU Idle
49.89s Time To Interactive

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.97s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
43.59s First CPU Idle
43.59s Time To Interactive
45s Visually Complete
48.97s Fully Loaded

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#7 FORBES
0.73s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.25s Largest Contentful Paint
8.49s First CPU Idle
74s Last Painted Hero
82s Visually Complete
82.26s Time To Interactive
119.93s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.73s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.52s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
29s Visually Complete
32.62s First CPU Idle
32.62s Time To Interactive
55.72s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.1s Backend
3s Start Render
7.24s Largest Contentful Paint
16s Last Painted Hero
66s Visually Complete
70.65s First CPU Idle
94.79s Time To Interactive
120.05s Fully Loaded

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#10 REUTERS
0.78s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.2s Last Painted Hero
3.21s Largest Contentful Paint
10.4s Visually Complete
69.78s First CPU Idle
119.87s Fully Loaded
119.9s Time To Interactive

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.75s Backend
3.6s Start Render
4.22s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
29.47s First CPU Idle
44.9s Visually Complete
65.27s Time To Interactive
82.77s Fully Loaded

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#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.82s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.72s Largest Contentful Paint
54.32s First CPU Idle
83.17s Time To Interactive
95s Visually Complete
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#13 FINANCIAL TIMES
1.06s Backend
5s Start Render
6.22s First CPU Idle
6.58s Largest Contentful Paint
20.54s Time To Interactive
21s Last Painted Hero
21.31s Fully Loaded
21.4s Visually Complete

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
5.1s Start Render
25.7s Largest Contentful Paint
32.2s Visually Complete
33.49s First CPU Idle
64.76s Time To Interactive
230.15s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.8s Backend
5.4s Start Render
19.78s Largest Contentful Paint
53.5s Last Painted Hero
53.5s Visually Complete
55.12s First CPU Idle
60.91s Time To Interactive
81.86s Fully Loaded

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#16 ESPN
0.78s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.6s First CPU Idle
8.75s Largest Contentful Paint
8.8s Last Painted Hero
33.2s Visually Complete
44.52s Fully Loaded
45.37s Time To Interactive

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#17 POLITICO
0.72s Backend
5.7s Start Render
5.8s Visually Complete
5.87s Largest Contentful Paint
15.45s First CPU Idle
55.5s Last Painted Hero
59.3s Time To Interactive
98.65s Fully Loaded

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#18 CNN
0.72s Backend
5.9s Start Render
14.17s First CPU Idle
16.73s Largest Contentful Paint
106s Last Painted Hero
119.7s Visually Complete
119.85s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#19 THE ONION
0.77s Backend
6.8s Start Render
13.2s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
53.89s First CPU Idle
62.47s Time To Interactive
72.46s Fully Loaded
77.5s Visually Complete

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