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
0.81s Backend
1s Start Render
3.38s Largest Contentful Paint
68s Visually Complete
94.38s First CPU Idle
94.38s Time To Interactive
116.66s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.2s Largest Contentful Paint
9.3s Last Painted Hero
9.3s Visually Complete
9.8s First CPU Idle
9.8s Time To Interactive
9.97s Fully Loaded

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#3 YAHOO NEWS
0.9s Backend
3.1s Start Render
8.92s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
69.13s First CPU Idle
69.13s Time To Interactive
104.42s Fully Loaded
104.5s Visually Complete

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#4 NEW YORK TIMES
0.97s Backend
3.8s Start Render
3.84s Largest Contentful Paint
41.3s Last Painted Hero
41.3s Visually Complete
60.67s First CPU Idle
60.67s Time To Interactive
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#5 WASHINGTON POST
1.02s Backend
3.9s Start Render
4.1s Largest Contentful Paint
28.8s Last Painted Hero
28.8s Visually Complete
53.13s First CPU Idle
53.13s Time To Interactive
83.15s Fully Loaded

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#6 HUFFINGTON POST
1.43s Backend
4.5s Start Render
25.82s Largest Contentful Paint
104.61s First CPU Idle
104.61s Time To Interactive
116s Visually Complete
119.05s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.71s Backend
4.5s Start Render
4.59s Largest Contentful Paint
8.6s Last Painted Hero
8.6s Visually Complete
49.07s First CPU Idle
49.07s Time To Interactive
55.83s Fully Loaded

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#8 ESPN
0.72s Backend
4.6s Start Render
5.91s First CPU Idle
16.25s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
41.9s Visually Complete
47.12s Time To Interactive
48.84s Fully Loaded

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#9 NPR
1.04s Backend
5s Start Render
10.77s First CPU Idle
17s Last Painted Hero
17.66s Largest Contentful Paint
59.16s Time To Interactive
119.1s Visually Complete
120s Fully Loaded

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#10 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.6s Start Render
7.87s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Visually Complete
19.51s First CPU Idle
54s Last Painted Hero
86.19s Time To Interactive
92.14s Fully Loaded

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#11 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
1s Start Render
4.14s Largest Contentful Paint
15.96s First CPU Idle
15.96s Time To Interactive
16.74s Fully Loaded
16.8s Last Painted Hero
16.8s Visually Complete

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#12 BUZZFEED
0.74s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.43s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
28s Visually Complete
32.34s First CPU Idle
54.28s Time To Interactive
58.05s Fully Loaded

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#13 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.75s Backend
2s Start Render
3.2s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
23.68s First CPU Idle
34.67s Time To Interactive
39.42s Fully Loaded

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#14 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
5s Start Render
5.02s Largest Contentful Paint
5.1s Last Painted Hero
15.96s First CPU Idle
16.1s Visually Complete
42.04s Time To Interactive
45.18s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
3.35s Backend
8s Start Render
28.34s Largest Contentful Paint
28.4s Last Painted Hero
35.09s First CPU Idle
36s Visually Complete
90.53s Time To Interactive
119.83s Fully Loaded

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