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
1.1s Start Render
1.93s Largest Contentful Paint
29.1s Last Painted Hero
29.1s Visually Complete
46.64s First CPU Idle
56.99s Time To Interactive
97.41s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.68s Largest Contentful Paint
10.77s First CPU Idle
15.1s Last Painted Hero
15.1s Visually Complete
20.32s Time To Interactive
23.41s Fully Loaded

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#3 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
1.62s Largest Contentful Paint
12.09s First CPU Idle
82.64s Time To Interactive
86s Last Painted Hero
88s Visually Complete
120.37s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.81s Largest Contentful Paint
26s Last Painted Hero
29.5s Visually Complete
57.43s First CPU Idle
57.43s Time To Interactive
101.26s Fully Loaded

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#5 HUFFINGTON POST
1.4s Backend
1.6s Start Render
7.81s Largest Contentful Paint
57.9s First CPU Idle
84s Last Painted Hero
86s Visually Complete
89.32s Time To Interactive
105.57s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.73s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.92s Largest Contentful Paint
54.56s First CPU Idle
54.56s Time To Interactive
65s Last Painted Hero
82s Visually Complete
88.6s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.9s Start Render
1.97s Largest Contentful Paint
4.5s Last Painted Hero
4.5s Visually Complete
55.1s Fully Loaded
60.15s First CPU Idle
60.15s Time To Interactive

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#8 BBC.COM
0.77s Backend
3s Start Render
3.55s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
26s Visually Complete
30.38s First CPU Idle
30.38s Time To Interactive
56.64s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.93s Backend
3.2s Start Render
9.42s Largest Contentful Paint
15s Last Painted Hero
39s Visually Complete
57.73s First CPU Idle
57.73s Time To Interactive
93.33s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.81s Backend
3.5s Start Render
3.52s Largest Contentful Paint
20.51s First CPU Idle
42.3s Last Painted Hero
42.3s Visually Complete
97.14s Time To Interactive
119.95s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
3.5s Start Render
4.06s Largest Contentful Paint
4.1s Visually Complete
4.8s Last Painted Hero
43.9s First CPU Idle
43.9s Time To Interactive
49.1s Fully Loaded

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#12 FINANCIAL TIMES
1.12s Backend
4.5s Start Render
6.59s Largest Contentful Paint
19.44s First CPU Idle
19.44s Time To Interactive
20s Last Painted Hero
20.2s Fully Loaded
20.2s Visually Complete

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#13 POLITICO
0.73s Backend
5.1s Start Render
5.26s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Visually Complete
13s Last Painted Hero
52.02s First CPU Idle
52.02s Time To Interactive
53.73s Fully Loaded

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#14 THE ONION
0.69s Backend
5.2s Start Render
16.28s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
25s Visually Complete
58.78s First CPU Idle
58.78s Time To Interactive
68.82s Fully Loaded

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#15 BLOOMBERG
0.8s Backend
5.2s Start Render
25.43s Largest Contentful Paint
25.5s Last Painted Hero
37.18s First CPU Idle
94.9s Time To Interactive
109.8s Visually Complete
119.52s Fully Loaded

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#16 ESPN
0.75s Backend
5.78s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Start Render
5.8s First CPU Idle
5.8s Last Painted Hero
39s Visually Complete
43.86s Time To Interactive
77.44s Fully Loaded

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#17 NPR
0.76s Backend
6s Start Render
19.92s Largest Contentful Paint
50.8s Last Painted Hero
50.8s Visually Complete
54.67s First CPU Idle
54.67s Time To Interactive
60.93s Fully Loaded

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#18 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.2s Start Render
7.36s Largest Contentful Paint
71s Visually Complete
115.77s First CPU Idle
119.77s Time To Interactive
120.1s Fully Loaded

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