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
4.72s Largest Contentful Paint
30.1s Last Painted Hero
54.4s First CPU Idle
54.4s Time To Interactive
80s Visually Complete
118.67s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.62s Largest Contentful Paint
11.7s Last Painted Hero
11.7s Visually Complete
14.99s First CPU Idle
14.99s Time To Interactive
16.12s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.4s Start Render
4.83s Largest Contentful Paint
39s Last Painted Hero
58.81s First CPU Idle
58.81s Time To Interactive
79s Visually Complete
103.35s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.91s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
13s Visually Complete
30.37s First CPU Idle
47.7s Time To Interactive
53.36s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.9s Start Render
2.73s Largest Contentful Paint
44.41s First CPU Idle
44.41s Time To Interactive
62s Last Painted Hero
62s Visually Complete
73.66s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.42s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
26.41s First CPU Idle
101.03s Time To Interactive
117.44s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
3s Start Render
3.8s Largest Contentful Paint
28s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
33.03s First CPU Idle
33.03s Time To Interactive
54.32s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.76s Backend
3s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
5.33s First CPU Idle
5.39s Largest Contentful Paint
22.9s Visually Complete
31.79s Time To Interactive
70.21s Fully Loaded

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#9 NEW YORK TIMES
0.83s Backend
3.8s Start Render
20.58s First CPU Idle
32.6s Largest Contentful Paint
32.6s Last Painted Hero
32.6s Visually Complete
61.04s Time To Interactive
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#10 YAHOO NEWS
0.84s Backend
3.8s Start Render
4.33s First CPU Idle
7s Last Painted Hero
7.01s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Visually Complete
39.44s Fully Loaded
42.77s Time To Interactive

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.28s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
21s Visually Complete
48.73s First CPU Idle
48.73s Time To Interactive
72.72s Fully Loaded

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#12 WASHINGTON POST
0.71s Backend
4.8s Start Render
4.91s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
24s Visually Complete
44.94s First CPU Idle
44.94s Time To Interactive
74.77s Fully Loaded

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#13 POLITICO
0.69s Backend
5s Start Render
5.15s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s Last Painted Hero
9.1s Visually Complete
45.6s First CPU Idle
45.6s Time To Interactive
81.15s Fully Loaded

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#14 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.64s Largest Contentful Paint
20.6s Last Painted Hero
20.6s Visually Complete
21.81s First CPU Idle
21.81s Time To Interactive
30.83s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.8s Backend
6.1s Start Render
20.69s Largest Contentful Paint
49.5s Last Painted Hero
49.5s Visually Complete
53.89s First CPU Idle
53.89s Time To Interactive
62.97s Fully Loaded

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#16 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.2s Start Render
11.25s Largest Contentful Paint
44.6s Visually Complete
109.14s First CPU Idle
119.75s Time To Interactive
120.03s Fully Loaded

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#17 BLOOMBERG
4.03s Backend
8.4s Start Render
33.6s Visually Complete
33.63s Largest Contentful Paint
55.45s First CPU Idle
101.39s Time To Interactive
145.69s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.46s Backend
10s Start Render
10.76s First CPU Idle
10.8s Last Painted Hero
10.81s Largest Contentful Paint
42s Visually Complete
55.8s Time To Interactive
57.59s Fully Loaded

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