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 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
0.9s Start Render
4.31s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
30.94s First CPU Idle
30.94s Time To Interactive
31.1s Visually Complete
49.14s Fully Loaded

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#2 USA TODAY
0.85s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.09s Largest Contentful Paint
54s Last Painted Hero
90.1s Visually Complete
95.25s First CPU Idle
104.18s Time To Interactive
118.82s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.2s Start Render
8.5s Largest Contentful Paint
10.3s Last Painted Hero
10.3s Visually Complete
14.3s Fully Loaded
14.45s First CPU Idle
14.45s Time To Interactive

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.2s Largest Contentful Paint
26.17s First CPU Idle
38s Last Painted Hero
62.35s Time To Interactive
74s Visually Complete
84s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
13.7s Visually Complete
31.31s First CPU Idle
61.43s Time To Interactive
62.29s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.88s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
35s Visually Complete
42.67s First CPU Idle
42.67s Time To Interactive
44.7s Fully Loaded

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#7 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.54s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
13.75s First CPU Idle
64s Visually Complete
89.06s Time To Interactive
90.77s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.71s Backend
2.7s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
5.04s Largest Contentful Paint
6.27s First CPU Idle
23.4s Visually Complete
35.43s Time To Interactive
52.11s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.98s Backend
3.2s Start Render
3.73s First CPU Idle
6.81s Largest Contentful Paint
7.1s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
43.81s Time To Interactive
43.96s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.87s Backend
3.6s Start Render
3.98s Largest Contentful Paint
20s First CPU Idle
40.2s Last Painted Hero
40.2s Visually Complete
66.58s Time To Interactive
120.03s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
3.7s Start Render
3.8s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Visually Complete
7.8s Last Painted Hero
53.83s First CPU Idle
70.5s Time To Interactive
84.34s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.3s Start Render
9.84s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
40s Visually Complete
79.01s First CPU Idle
79.01s Time To Interactive
119.27s Fully Loaded

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#13 NPR
0.9s Backend
4.5s Start Render
19.34s Largest Contentful Paint
44.77s First CPU Idle
55.1s Last Painted Hero
55.3s Visually Complete
63.7s Time To Interactive
73.34s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
5.3s Start Render
26.64s Largest Contentful Paint
45.75s First CPU Idle
113.16s Time To Interactive
118s Visually Complete
119.91s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.1s Start Render
6.11s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
12.19s First CPU Idle
45s Visually Complete
108.55s Time To Interactive
119.97s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
0.68s Backend
7.4s Start Render
7.46s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
28.42s First CPU Idle
28.42s Time To Interactive
38.75s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
1.47s Backend
8.6s Start Render
9.26s First CPU Idle
12.8s Last Painted Hero
12.84s Largest Contentful Paint
53.62s Time To Interactive
56.3s Visually Complete
62.6s Fully Loaded

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