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
0.73s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.9s Largest Contentful Paint
43.5s Visually Complete
43.65s First CPU Idle
68.27s Time To Interactive
109.16s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.2s Start Render
8.42s Largest Contentful Paint
10.7s Last Painted Hero
10.7s Visually Complete
13.97s First CPU Idle
13.97s Time To Interactive
21.4s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.82s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
26.88s First CPU Idle
58s Visually Complete
67.48s Time To Interactive
107.42s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.86s Largest Contentful Paint
10s Last Painted Hero
14s Visually Complete
34.47s First CPU Idle
58.1s Time To Interactive
76.83s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.83s Largest Contentful Paint
2.9s Last Painted Hero
29s Visually Complete
43.35s First CPU Idle
43.35s Time To Interactive
45.32s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.55s Largest Contentful Paint
2.6s Last Painted Hero
13.08s First CPU Idle
59s Visually Complete
111.47s Time To Interactive
112.4s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
2.8s Start Render
7.22s Largest Contentful Paint
25.2s Last Painted Hero
33.83s First CPU Idle
33.83s Time To Interactive
36s Visually Complete
39.68s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.73s Backend
3.1s Start Render
5.42s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s First CPU Idle
63.6s Visually Complete
64.37s Time To Interactive
84.61s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.44s Backend
3.8s Start Render
6.67s Largest Contentful Paint
11.5s Last Painted Hero
39.26s First CPU Idle
39.26s Time To Interactive
58.9s Visually Complete
60.77s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
3.8s Start Render
23.39s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
27s Visually Complete
61.07s First CPU Idle
61.07s Time To Interactive
79.95s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.4s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.35s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
59.36s First CPU Idle
59.36s Time To Interactive
74.15s Fully Loaded
79.1s Visually Complete

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.86s Backend
4.9s Start Render
29.05s Largest Contentful Paint
33.04s First CPU Idle
54.7s Visually Complete
119.53s Time To Interactive
119.94s Fully Loaded

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#13 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.3s Start Render
5.46s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Visually Complete
40s Last Painted Hero
45.81s First CPU Idle
45.81s Time To Interactive
71.97s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.85s Backend
5.44s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Start Render
21.82s First CPU Idle
29.3s Last Painted Hero
29.3s Visually Complete
43.49s Time To Interactive
119.94s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
6s Start Render
6.07s Largest Contentful Paint
110.66s First CPU Idle
118.11s Time To Interactive
120.49s Fully Loaded
120.6s Visually Complete

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#16 THE ONION
1.2s Backend
7.7s Start Render
7.8s Largest Contentful Paint
28.59s First CPU Idle
28.59s Time To Interactive
28.8s Last Painted Hero
28.8s Visually Complete
39.08s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.93s Backend
8.3s Start Render
8.98s First CPU Idle
8.98s Time To Interactive
38.54s Largest Contentful Paint
63.5s Last Painted Hero
63.5s Visually Complete
79.73s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.46s Backend
10.5s Start Render
10.94s First CPU Idle
10.96s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Last Painted Hero
56.09s Time To Interactive
57.9s Visually Complete
57.92s Fully Loaded

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