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
0.81s Backend
1s Start Render
1.95s Largest Contentful Paint
103.3s Visually Complete
118.32s First CPU Idle
118.32s Time To Interactive
119.92s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.43s Largest Contentful Paint
8.6s Last Painted Hero
8.6s Visually Complete
9.79s First CPU Idle
9.79s Time To Interactive
9.91s Fully Loaded

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#3 YAHOO NEWS
0.77s Backend
2.9s Start Render
7.65s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
69.74s First CPU Idle
94.2s Time To Interactive
118s Visually Complete
119.68s Fully Loaded

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#4 NPR
0.92s Backend
3.5s Start Render
13.16s Largest Contentful Paint
13.2s Visually Complete
58.63s First CPU Idle
58.63s Time To Interactive
73.28s Fully Loaded

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#5 WASHINGTON POST
0.78s Backend
3.7s Start Render
3.77s Largest Contentful Paint
45.57s First CPU Idle
45.57s Time To Interactive
53s Last Painted Hero
64.72s Fully Loaded
65.6s Visually Complete

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#6 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.4s Start Render
8.07s Largest Contentful Paint
93s Visually Complete
94.54s First CPU Idle
94.54s Time To Interactive
120.54s Fully Loaded

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#7 NEW YORK TIMES
0.88s Backend
4.9s Start Render
4.94s Largest Contentful Paint
15.22s First CPU Idle
38.3s Last Painted Hero
38.3s Visually Complete
52.04s Time To Interactive
119.97s Fully Loaded

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#8 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.5s Start Render
13.93s First CPU Idle
13.93s Time To Interactive
21.73s Largest Contentful Paint
110s Last Painted Hero
119.98s Fully Loaded
120s Visually Complete

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#9 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
1s Start Render
5.26s Largest Contentful Paint
17.26s First CPU Idle
17.26s Time To Interactive
18.13s Fully Loaded
18.2s Last Painted Hero
18.2s Visually Complete

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#10 BUZZFEED
0.74s Backend
1.4s Start Render
6.74s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
33.21s First CPU Idle
52.68s Time To Interactive
54.85s Fully Loaded

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#11 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
1.9s Start Render
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
30.97s First CPU Idle
30.97s Time To Interactive
32.54s Fully Loaded
34s Visually Complete

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#12 ESPN
0.79s Backend
4.7s Start Render
6.1s First CPU Idle
16.06s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
48.9s Visually Complete
53.61s Time To Interactive
56.74s Fully Loaded

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#13 VOX
0.72s Backend
4.9s Start Render
4.9s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
14.9s Visually Complete
55.14s First CPU Idle
60.83s Time To Interactive
61.84s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
6s Start Render
28.75s Largest Contentful Paint
29s Last Painted Hero
36.71s First CPU Idle
50.1s Visually Complete
100.83s Time To Interactive
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
2.03s Backend
6.7s Start Render
6.71s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Last Painted Hero
18.12s First CPU Idle
19.3s Visually Complete
48.39s Time To Interactive
50.43s Fully Loaded

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#16 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2.4s Start Render
2.54s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
13.1s First CPU Idle
51s Visually Complete
72.87s Time To Interactive
78.91s Fully Loaded

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