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
0.78s Backend
1.2s Start Render
2.1s Largest Contentful Paint
12.5s Last Painted Hero
19.8s Visually Complete
28.56s First CPU Idle
36.36s Time To Interactive
58.46s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.82s Backend
1.2s Start Render
4.48s Largest Contentful Paint
6.5s Last Painted Hero
8.3s Visually Complete
19.71s First CPU Idle
35.43s Time To Interactive
63.98s Fully Loaded

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#3 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
1.52s Largest Contentful Paint
3.1s Last Painted Hero
27.3s Visually Complete
36.93s First CPU Idle
36.93s Time To Interactive
40.44s Fully Loaded

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#4 BBC.COM
0.74s Backend
1.4s Start Render
7.2s Largest Contentful Paint
7.5s Last Painted Hero
7.5s Visually Complete
10.09s First CPU Idle
35.57s Time To Interactive
36.76s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.5s Start Render
7.08s Largest Contentful Paint
7.2s Last Painted Hero
23.3s Visually Complete
32.01s First CPU Idle
32.01s Time To Interactive
37.8s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.6s Start Render
5.99s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
9.1s Visually Complete
16.59s First CPU Idle
16.59s Time To Interactive
25.26s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.82s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s Last Painted Hero
9.1s Visually Complete
28.63s First CPU Idle
28.63s Time To Interactive
33.79s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.77s Backend
2s Start Render
3.73s Largest Contentful Paint
3.8s Last Painted Hero
24.7s Visually Complete
27.71s First CPU Idle
38.97s Time To Interactive
41.12s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
2.98s Start Render
17.68s Largest Contentful Paint
17.75s Last Painted Hero
23.8s Visually Complete
32.39s First CPU Idle
32.39s Time To Interactive
61.86s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.74s Backend
2.97s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Start Render
4s Last Painted Hero
18.13s First CPU Idle
28.8s Visually Complete
34.74s Time To Interactive
114.05s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.39s Backend
3.4s Start Render
3.5s Largest Contentful Paint
42.2s Visually Complete
58.66s First CPU Idle
58.66s Time To Interactive
94.56s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.85s Backend
4.5s Start Render
4.6s Largest Contentful Paint
17.1s Last Painted Hero
20.7s Visually Complete
47.88s First CPU Idle
47.88s Time To Interactive
51.37s Fully Loaded

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#13 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.88s Backend
4.5s Start Render
4.78s Largest Contentful Paint
17.71s First CPU Idle
17.71s Time To Interactive
25.2s Visually Complete
30.71s Fully Loaded

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#14 BLOOMBERG
0.9s Backend
4.7s Start Render
10.64s First CPU Idle
10.64s Time To Interactive
105.9s Visually Complete
118.85s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.71s Backend
5.3s Start Render
7.2s Largest Contentful Paint
16.36s First CPU Idle
54.8s Last Painted Hero
54.8s Visually Complete
98.94s Time To Interactive
119.74s Fully Loaded

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#16 ESPN
0.7s Backend
5.8s Start Render
5.8s First CPU Idle
5.84s Largest Contentful Paint
45.1s Last Painted Hero
45.1s Visually Complete
49.02s Time To Interactive
59.06s Fully Loaded

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