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
0.72s Backend
1s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
22.9s Last Painted Hero
46.66s First CPU Idle
46.66s Time To Interactive
77.1s Visually Complete
83.51s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.3s Start Render
7.75s Largest Contentful Paint
11.7s Last Painted Hero
11.7s Visually Complete
15.73s First CPU Idle
15.73s Time To Interactive
19.24s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.09s Largest Contentful Paint
29s Last Painted Hero
36.05s First CPU Idle
36.05s Time To Interactive
67.1s Visually Complete
74.67s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.88s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
5.3s Visually Complete
38.29s First CPU Idle
38.29s Time To Interactive
38.44s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.97s Largest Contentful Paint
42.25s First CPU Idle
42.25s Time To Interactive
59s Last Painted Hero
62.3s Fully Loaded
66.2s Visually Complete

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#6 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.3s Last Painted Hero
2.33s Largest Contentful Paint
10.89s First CPU Idle
10.89s Time To Interactive
68s Visually Complete
108.8s Fully Loaded

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#7 YAHOO NEWS
0.84s Backend
2.7s Start Render
7.1s Last Painted Hero
7.15s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Visually Complete
35.44s First CPU Idle
35.44s Time To Interactive
35.63s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
2.9s Start Render
4.68s Largest Contentful Paint
29s Last Painted Hero
33.36s First CPU Idle
33.36s Time To Interactive
39s Visually Complete
56.02s Fully Loaded

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#9 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.74s Backend
3s Start Render
4.92s Largest Contentful Paint
5.36s First CPU Idle
35.9s Time To Interactive
88.5s Visually Complete
98.07s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.85s Backend
3.35s Largest Contentful Paint
3.4s Start Render
28.5s Last Painted Hero
28.5s Visually Complete
37.83s First CPU Idle
44.13s Time To Interactive
56.51s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.2s Start Render
4.3s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
30.63s First CPU Idle
52.4s Visually Complete
54.07s Time To Interactive
63.18s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.73s Backend
4.9s Start Render
4.94s Largest Contentful Paint
7.6s Last Painted Hero
47.5s Visually Complete
60.43s First CPU Idle
68.99s Time To Interactive
76.05s Fully Loaded

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#13 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.65s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Visually Complete
42s Last Painted Hero
52.69s First CPU Idle
52.69s Time To Interactive
61.38s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
5.6s Start Render
25.69s Largest Contentful Paint
43.06s First CPU Idle
109.1s Time To Interactive
109.9s Visually Complete
120.06s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.67s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Start Render
22.12s First CPU Idle
22.12s Time To Interactive
23.2s Last Painted Hero
23.2s Visually Complete
30.8s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.76s Backend
5.9s Start Render
22.72s Largest Contentful Paint
56.13s First CPU Idle
56.5s Last Painted Hero
56.5s Visually Complete
79.9s Time To Interactive
92.2s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.72s Backend
6s Start Render
6.83s Largest Contentful Paint
10.73s First CPU Idle
70.2s Last Painted Hero
88.5s Visually Complete
92.31s Time To Interactive
120.02s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.49s Backend
10.1s Start Render
10.66s Largest Contentful Paint
11.7s Last Painted Hero
34.7s Visually Complete
37.58s First CPU Idle
52.08s Time To Interactive
54.02s Fully Loaded

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