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
0.8s Backend
1s Start Render
2s Largest Contentful Paint
48.68s First CPU Idle
65.2s Last Painted Hero
106.1s Visually Complete
111.95s Time To Interactive
120s Fully Loaded

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#2 BBC.COM
0.77s Backend
1s Start Render
4.89s Largest Contentful Paint
16.6s First CPU Idle
16.6s Time To Interactive
17.8s Last Painted Hero
17.8s Visually Complete
32.3s Fully Loaded

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#3 LA TIMES
0.78s Backend
1.1s Start Render
9.27s Largest Contentful Paint
11.5s Last Painted Hero
11.5s Visually Complete
14.23s First CPU Idle
14.23s Time To Interactive
17.27s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.27s Largest Contentful Paint
36s Last Painted Hero
36s Visually Complete
42.26s First CPU Idle
42.26s Time To Interactive
65.65s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.86s Backend
1.9s Start Render
3.1s Last Painted Hero
3.11s Largest Contentful Paint
21.94s First CPU Idle
46.26s Time To Interactive
48s Visually Complete
68.07s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.73s Backend
2.2s Start Render
2.43s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
14.56s First CPU Idle
64s Visually Complete
89.93s Time To Interactive
96.75s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.72s Backend
2.5s Start Render
5.1s Largest Contentful Paint
6.75s First CPU Idle
24.8s Last Painted Hero
25.7s Visually Complete
26.81s Time To Interactive
44.2s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.85s Backend
3.4s Start Render
3.82s Largest Contentful Paint
32.62s First CPU Idle
56s Last Painted Hero
56s Visually Complete
59.35s Time To Interactive
119.94s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.88s Backend
3.4s Start Render
5.96s Largest Contentful Paint
43.96s First CPU Idle
43.96s Time To Interactive
55.66s Fully Loaded
55.7s Last Painted Hero
55.7s Visually Complete

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
3.6s Start Render
3.74s Largest Contentful Paint
23.86s First CPU Idle
30s Last Painted Hero
30s Visually Complete
51.76s Time To Interactive
63.19s Fully Loaded

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#11 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.3s Start Render
9.37s Largest Contentful Paint
30s Last Painted Hero
68.71s First CPU Idle
68.71s Time To Interactive
119.43s Fully Loaded
120.3s Visually Complete

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#12 ESPN
0.78s Backend
4.6s Start Render
5.43s First CPU Idle
8.4s Largest Contentful Paint
8.4s Last Painted Hero
41.7s Visually Complete
56.31s Fully Loaded
59.92s Time To Interactive

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#13 VOX
0.73s Backend
4.7s Start Render
4.72s Largest Contentful Paint
6.8s Last Painted Hero
15s Visually Complete
51.5s First CPU Idle
65.95s Time To Interactive
71.53s Fully Loaded

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#14 THE ONION
0.68s Backend
5.3s Start Render
5.3s Largest Contentful Paint
13.92s First CPU Idle
26.48s Time To Interactive
27.7s Last Painted Hero
27.7s Visually Complete
36.42s Fully Loaded

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#15 NPR
0.91s Backend
5.7s Start Render
19.44s Largest Contentful Paint
32.57s First CPU Idle
57.3s Last Painted Hero
57.3s Visually Complete
88.71s Time To Interactive
92.28s Fully Loaded

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#16 BLOOMBERG
0.78s Backend
6s Start Render
35.5s Largest Contentful Paint
41.9s Last Painted Hero
52.44s First CPU Idle
52.6s Visually Complete
105.11s Time To Interactive
118.83s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.73s Backend
6.3s Start Render
78.85s Largest Contentful Paint
95.1s Visually Complete
102.4s First CPU Idle
119.32s Time To Interactive
129.15s Fully Loaded

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