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
0.77s Backend
1s Start Render
4.31s Largest Contentful Paint
15.98s First CPU Idle
15.98s Time To Interactive
16.76s Fully Loaded
16.8s Last Painted Hero
16.8s Visually Complete

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
9.41s Largest Contentful Paint
9.5s Last Painted Hero
9.5s Visually Complete
10.4s First CPU Idle
10.4s Time To Interactive
10.54s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.75s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.99s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Last Painted Hero
44.2s First CPU Idle
58s Visually Complete
60.84s Time To Interactive
99.79s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.93s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.3s Last Painted Hero
3.32s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Visually Complete
29.62s First CPU Idle
29.62s Time To Interactive
38.42s Fully Loaded

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#5 YAHOO NEWS
0.91s Backend
2.9s Start Render
6.9s Last Painted Hero
6.92s Largest Contentful Paint
65.22s First CPU Idle
65.22s Time To Interactive
71.5s Visually Complete
74.96s Fully Loaded

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#6 WASHINGTON POST
0.78s Backend
3.7s Start Render
3.8s Largest Contentful Paint
37s Last Painted Hero
37s Visually Complete
53.59s First CPU Idle
53.59s Time To Interactive
85.63s Fully Loaded

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#7 NEW YORK TIMES
0.87s Backend
3.8s Start Render
21.46s First CPU Idle
75.3s Largest Contentful Paint
76.85s Time To Interactive
119.99s Fully Loaded
120.1s Visually Complete

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#8 VOX
0.73s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.15s Largest Contentful Paint
7.1s Last Painted Hero
14.49s First CPU Idle
14.6s Visually Complete
35.01s Time To Interactive
35.35s Fully Loaded

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#9 HUFFINGTON POST
1.45s Backend
4.3s Start Render
4.52s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
23.81s First CPU Idle
43s Visually Complete
74.3s Time To Interactive
115.14s Fully Loaded

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#10 ESPN
0.8s Backend
4.8s Start Render
5.7s First CPU Idle
12.44s Largest Contentful Paint
12.5s Last Painted Hero
39.55s Time To Interactive
47.63s Fully Loaded
48.6s Visually Complete

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#11 NPR
0.9s Backend
5.1s Start Render
32.24s Largest Contentful Paint
53.1s Last Painted Hero
53.1s Visually Complete
54.06s First CPU Idle
54.06s Time To Interactive
57.1s Fully Loaded

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#12 THE ONION
1.19s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.45s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
30.6s Visually Complete
41.41s First CPU Idle
41.41s Time To Interactive
43.97s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
5.5s Start Render
30.84s Largest Contentful Paint
31s Last Painted Hero
100.63s First CPU Idle
110.04s Time To Interactive
119.95s Fully Loaded
120s Visually Complete

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#14 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.6s Start Render
8.61s Largest Contentful Paint
90s Visually Complete
91.37s First CPU Idle
118.05s Time To Interactive
133.53s Fully Loaded

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#15 USA TODAY
0.73s Backend
1s Start Render
1.98s Largest Contentful Paint
58s Last Painted Hero
59.04s First CPU Idle
59.04s Time To Interactive
80.8s Visually Complete
87.95s Fully Loaded

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#16 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.82s Largest Contentful Paint
10.4s Last Painted Hero
10.4s Visually Complete
12.88s First CPU Idle
73.07s Time To Interactive
99.76s Fully Loaded

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