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
1.91s Largest Contentful Paint
25.3s Last Painted Hero
48.96s First CPU Idle
48.96s Time To Interactive
79.1s Visually Complete
88.28s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.2s Start Render
7.89s Largest Contentful Paint
12s Last Painted Hero
12s Visually Complete
16.02s First CPU Idle
16.02s Time To Interactive
17.15s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.73s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
30.65s First CPU Idle
30.65s Time To Interactive
65s Visually Complete
68.61s Fully Loaded

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#4 VOX
0.72s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.79s Largest Contentful Paint
5.5s Last Painted Hero
5.5s Visually Complete
37.35s Fully Loaded
41.23s First CPU Idle
41.23s Time To Interactive

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.15s Largest Contentful Paint
38.7s First CPU Idle
38.7s Time To Interactive
56s Last Painted Hero
56s Visually Complete
61.91s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.7s Last Painted Hero
2.72s Largest Contentful Paint
12.37s First CPU Idle
24s Visually Complete
100.62s Time To Interactive
114.24s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.86s Backend
2.7s Start Render
4.94s First CPU Idle
5.18s Largest Contentful Paint
32.62s Time To Interactive
63.8s Last Painted Hero
92.2s Visually Complete
100.69s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.52s Largest Contentful Paint
12.09s First CPU Idle
32s Last Painted Hero
39.75s Time To Interactive
41s Visually Complete
59.03s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.82s Backend
3.3s Start Render
6.66s Largest Contentful Paint
33s Last Painted Hero
46.11s First CPU Idle
55.5s Visually Complete
61.75s Fully Loaded
66.42s Time To Interactive

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.5s Start Render
4.7s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
20s Visually Complete
33.05s First CPU Idle
33.05s Time To Interactive
49.34s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
4.9s Start Render
5s Largest Contentful Paint
7.4s Last Painted Hero
24s Visually Complete
42.13s First CPU Idle
42.13s Time To Interactive
63.67s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
5.3s Start Render
30.3s Visually Complete
30.32s Largest Contentful Paint
43.73s First CPU Idle
109.91s Time To Interactive
120.01s Fully Loaded

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#13 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.5s Visually Complete
5.53s Largest Contentful Paint
26.8s Last Painted Hero
33s First CPU Idle
33s Time To Interactive
58.4s Fully Loaded

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#14 NEW YORK TIMES
0.84s Backend
5.4s Start Render
6.34s Largest Contentful Paint
26.11s First CPU Idle
36.2s Visually Complete
61.48s Time To Interactive
81.78s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.61s Largest Contentful Paint
21.62s First CPU Idle
21.62s Time To Interactive
22.2s Last Painted Hero
22.2s Visually Complete
31.64s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.82s Backend
6.1s Start Render
23.13s Largest Contentful Paint
50.3s Last Painted Hero
50.3s Visually Complete
54.75s First CPU Idle
54.75s Time To Interactive
60.97s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.1s Start Render
6.24s Largest Contentful Paint
13.79s First CPU Idle
81.11s Time To Interactive
103s Last Painted Hero
119s Visually Complete
119.99s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.48s Backend
9.7s Start Render
10.49s First CPU Idle
10.6s Last Painted Hero
10.62s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Visually Complete
51.13s Time To Interactive
53.02s Fully Loaded

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