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
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.55s Largest Contentful Paint
13.3s Last Painted Hero
13.3s Visually Complete
16.61s First CPU Idle
16.61s Time To Interactive
19.84s Fully Loaded

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#2 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
6.33s Largest Contentful Paint
37s Last Painted Hero
37s Visually Complete
74.13s First CPU Idle
74.13s Time To Interactive
119.92s Fully Loaded

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#3 USA TODAY
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.84s Largest Contentful Paint
37.6s First CPU Idle
37.6s Time To Interactive
51s Last Painted Hero
84s Visually Complete
91.52s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
3.28s Largest Contentful Paint
44.62s First CPU Idle
44.62s Time To Interactive
62s Last Painted Hero
76.41s Fully Loaded
81.4s Visually Complete

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
1.96s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
11.6s Visually Complete
72.61s First CPU Idle
72.61s Time To Interactive
93.33s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.74s Backend
2s Start Render
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.34s Largest Contentful Paint
15.32s First CPU Idle
33s Visually Complete
69.49s Time To Interactive
115.59s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.73s Backend
2.8s Start Render
3.75s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
27.89s First CPU Idle
27.89s Time To Interactive
28s Visually Complete
35.19s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.95s Backend
3.1s Start Render
7s Last Painted Hero
7.06s Largest Contentful Paint
35.64s First CPU Idle
60.2s Visually Complete
60.58s Time To Interactive
62.28s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
1.03s Backend
3.3s Start Render
4.17s Largest Contentful Paint
4.69s First CPU Idle
38.6s Visually Complete
83.12s Time To Interactive
90.21s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.75s Backend
3.6s Start Render
3.75s Largest Contentful Paint
4.5s Last Painted Hero
29s Visually Complete
31.17s First CPU Idle
53.73s Time To Interactive
73.09s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.1s Start Render
6.69s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
64.86s First CPU Idle
64.86s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#12 NEW YORK TIMES
0.8s Backend
4.4s Start Render
29.11s First CPU Idle
34.12s Largest Contentful Paint
50.7s Visually Complete
58.34s Time To Interactive
119.93s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
4.9s Start Render
22.14s Largest Contentful Paint
29.47s First CPU Idle
29.7s Visually Complete
112.8s Time To Interactive
134.53s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.31s Largest Contentful Paint
10.5s Last Painted Hero
10.5s Visually Complete
34.99s First CPU Idle
34.99s Time To Interactive
74.58s Fully Loaded

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#15 ESPN
0.78s Backend
5.5s Start Render
5.5s First CPU Idle
5.57s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Last Painted Hero
29.7s Visually Complete
54.55s Fully Loaded
58.27s Time To Interactive

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#16 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.8s Start Render
9.74s Largest Contentful Paint
38s Last Painted Hero
42s Visually Complete
55.13s First CPU Idle
55.13s Time To Interactive
80.48s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.72s Backend
6s Start Render
6.23s Largest Contentful Paint
13.68s First CPU Idle
89s Last Painted Hero
103s Visually Complete
103.26s Time To Interactive
108.49s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.74s Backend
6.1s Start Render
19.98s Largest Contentful Paint
55.3s Last Painted Hero
55.3s Visually Complete
57.14s First CPU Idle
57.14s Time To Interactive
82.4s Fully Loaded

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