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
1.89s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
13.95s First CPU Idle
58.28s Time To Interactive
87.7s Visually Complete
94.27s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.2s Start Render
8.49s Largest Contentful Paint
10s Last Painted Hero
10s Visually Complete
14.31s Fully Loaded
14.54s First CPU Idle
14.54s Time To Interactive

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.79s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
30.76s First CPU Idle
73.36s Time To Interactive
112.01s Fully Loaded
113s Visually Complete

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#4 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.6s Start Render
1.83s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
13.51s First CPU Idle
13.6s Visually Complete
48.17s Time To Interactive
50s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
2.1s Start Render
3s Last Painted Hero
3.01s Largest Contentful Paint
36.3s Visually Complete
41.07s First CPU Idle
41.07s Time To Interactive
41.87s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2.6s Start Render
2.82s Largest Contentful Paint
8s Last Painted Hero
35.65s First CPU Idle
62s Visually Complete
92.39s Time To Interactive
93.49s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.77s Backend
2.6s Start Render
8.65s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
34.41s First CPU Idle
34.41s Time To Interactive
36s Visually Complete
40.36s Fully Loaded

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#8 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.71s Backend
3s Start Render
4.78s Largest Contentful Paint
5.55s First CPU Idle
31.5s Last Painted Hero
32.2s Visually Complete
32.59s Time To Interactive
36.47s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.97s Backend
3.4s Start Render
6.47s Largest Contentful Paint
11s Last Painted Hero
57.79s First CPU Idle
57.79s Time To Interactive
81s Visually Complete
83.67s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.75s Backend
3.9s Start Render
3.97s Largest Contentful Paint
37.4s Last Painted Hero
37.4s Visually Complete
74.11s First CPU Idle
74.11s Time To Interactive
84.49s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.8s Backend
3.9s Start Render
4.8s Largest Contentful Paint
28.82s First CPU Idle
51s Visually Complete
98.53s Time To Interactive
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.24s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
77.54s First CPU Idle
77.54s Time To Interactive
88s Visually Complete
112.5s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
4.7s Start Render
29.8s Visually Complete
29.85s Largest Contentful Paint
30.91s First CPU Idle
92.95s Time To Interactive
218.18s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.91s Backend
5.3s Start Render
8.45s First CPU Idle
8.45s Time To Interactive
36.11s Largest Contentful Paint
77.7s Last Painted Hero
77.8s Visually Complete
94.37s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.9s Start Render
7.23s Largest Contentful Paint
9.4s Visually Complete
29.4s First CPU Idle
83.16s Time To Interactive
119.93s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
1.38s Backend
8.14s Largest Contentful Paint
8.2s Start Render
9.6s Visually Complete
30s Last Painted Hero
30.01s First CPU Idle
30.01s Time To Interactive
40.4s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
1.46s Backend
10.7s Start Render
11.05s First CPU Idle
11.31s Largest Contentful Paint
12.8s Last Painted Hero
37.1s Visually Complete
43.38s Time To Interactive
45.2s Fully Loaded

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#18 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5s Start Render
5.1s Visually Complete
5.17s Largest Contentful Paint
8.4s Last Painted Hero
48.63s First CPU Idle
48.63s Time To Interactive
83.97s Fully Loaded

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