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 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
9s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
9.03s Largest Contentful Paint
9.61s First CPU Idle
9.61s Time To Interactive
9.82s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3.78s Largest Contentful Paint
15.41s First CPU Idle
15.41s Time To Interactive
16.18s Fully Loaded
16.2s Last Painted Hero
16.2s Visually Complete

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.74s Backend
1.3s Start Render
4.98s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Last Painted Hero
40s Visually Complete
62.32s First CPU Idle
62.32s Time To Interactive
65.21s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.74s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.14s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
32.08s First CPU Idle
32.08s Time To Interactive
32.35s Fully Loaded

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#5 YAHOO NEWS
0.88s Backend
2.8s Start Render
7.6s Last Painted Hero
7.63s Largest Contentful Paint
61.15s First CPU Idle
69.61s Time To Interactive
101s Visually Complete
119.92s Fully Loaded

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#6 WASHINGTON POST
0.81s Backend
3.6s Start Render
23.56s Largest Contentful Paint
35s Last Painted Hero
35s Visually Complete
52.38s First CPU Idle
52.38s Time To Interactive
83.28s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.72s Backend
3.94s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Start Render
5.6s Visually Complete
7.1s Last Painted Hero
34.57s First CPU Idle
56.24s Time To Interactive
98.38s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.99s Backend
4.2s Start Render
20.87s First CPU Idle
31.97s Largest Contentful Paint
93s Visually Complete
117.27s Time To Interactive
162.06s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
1.5s Backend
4.2s Start Render
8.82s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
24.33s First CPU Idle
39s Visually Complete
98.22s Time To Interactive
117.76s Fully Loaded

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#10 ESPN
0.75s Backend
4.7s Start Render
5.1s Largest Contentful Paint
6.9s Last Painted Hero
11.34s First CPU Idle
40.6s Time To Interactive
44.93s Fully Loaded
46.2s Visually Complete

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#11 NPR
0.92s Backend
5s Start Render
5.78s First CPU Idle
39.23s Time To Interactive
76.56s Largest Contentful Paint
95.5s Last Painted Hero
95.5s Visually Complete
100.26s Fully Loaded

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#12 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.5s Start Render
5.82s Largest Contentful Paint
9.2s Last Painted Hero
9.2s Visually Complete
12.25s First CPU Idle
68.1s Time To Interactive
99.6s Fully Loaded

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#13 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.3s Start Render
6.48s Largest Contentful Paint
84.08s First CPU Idle
103s Visually Complete
119.21s Time To Interactive
120.53s Fully Loaded

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#14 THE ONION
1.74s Backend
6.3s Start Render
6.32s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
13.51s First CPU Idle
16.2s Visually Complete
40.25s Time To Interactive
42.48s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
2.45s Backend
6.7s Start Render
31.7s Last Painted Hero
31.73s Largest Contentful Paint
32.47s First CPU Idle
98.3s Visually Complete
117.41s Time To Interactive
119.75s Fully Loaded

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