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
2.02s Largest Contentful Paint
15.96s First CPU Idle
41.2s Last Painted Hero
62.48s Time To Interactive
118.2s Visually Complete
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
8.75s Largest Contentful Paint
9.5s Last Painted Hero
9.5s Visually Complete
10.48s First CPU Idle
10.48s Time To Interactive
11.12s Fully Loaded

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#3 YAHOO NEWS
0.87s Backend
2.8s Start Render
7.7s Last Painted Hero
7.72s Largest Contentful Paint
72.01s First CPU Idle
86.44s Time To Interactive
94.6s Visually Complete
96.63s Fully Loaded

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#4 WASHINGTON POST
0.84s Backend
3.7s Start Render
23.39s Largest Contentful Paint
59.06s First CPU Idle
89.3s Last Painted Hero
94.02s Time To Interactive
100.2s Visually Complete
118.29s Fully Loaded

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#5 NEW YORK TIMES
0.85s Backend
3.8s Start Render
16.33s First CPU Idle
60.85s Largest Contentful Paint
63.83s Time To Interactive
118s Visually Complete
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#6 HUFFINGTON POST
1.43s Backend
4.5s Start Render
22.46s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
38.09s First CPU Idle
71.41s Time To Interactive
82s Visually Complete
119.56s Fully Loaded

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#7 NPR
0.95s Backend
4.6s Start Render
37.82s First CPU Idle
59.54s Time To Interactive
114.4s Visually Complete
114.71s Largest Contentful Paint
119.4s Last Painted Hero
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#8 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.5s Start Render
6.6s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
17.99s First CPU Idle
18s Visually Complete
95.51s Time To Interactive
118.79s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.74s Backend
1s Start Render
3.58s Largest Contentful Paint
16.48s First CPU Idle
16.48s Time To Interactive
17.26s Fully Loaded
18s Last Painted Hero
18s Visually Complete

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#10 BUZZFEED
0.75s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.82s Largest Contentful Paint
36s Last Painted Hero
36s Visually Complete
40.65s First CPU Idle
50.24s Time To Interactive
71.91s Fully Loaded

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#11 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.27s Largest Contentful Paint
3.3s Last Painted Hero
34.49s First CPU Idle
36.1s Visually Complete
40.11s Time To Interactive
64.47s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
5s Start Render
37.95s Largest Contentful Paint
79s Visually Complete
83.02s First CPU Idle
116.87s Time To Interactive
148.09s Fully Loaded

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#13 ESPN
0.79s Backend
5s Start Render
5.75s Largest Contentful Paint
6.11s First CPU Idle
7.2s Last Painted Hero
46s Visually Complete
57.66s Fully Loaded
60.78s Time To Interactive

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#14 VOX
0.72s Backend
5.5s Largest Contentful Paint
5.6s Start Render
7.1s Last Painted Hero
14.8s Visually Complete
60.4s First CPU Idle
60.4s Time To Interactive
63.51s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
1.23s Backend
5.67s Largest Contentful Paint
5.7s Start Render
5.8s Last Painted Hero
7.1s Visually Complete
15.62s First CPU Idle
40.67s Time To Interactive
44.18s Fully Loaded

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