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
0.71s Backend
1.1s Start Render
1.86s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
56.76s First CPU Idle
82.58s Time To Interactive
112.8s Visually Complete
119.63s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.2s Start Render
7.88s Largest Contentful Paint
12.2s Last Painted Hero
12.2s Visually Complete
15.45s First CPU Idle
15.45s Time To Interactive
18.91s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.74s Backend
1.4s Start Render
5.27s Largest Contentful Paint
34s Last Painted Hero
41.09s First CPU Idle
55.24s Time To Interactive
96.7s Visually Complete
102.25s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.73s Largest Contentful Paint
41.85s First CPU Idle
41.85s Time To Interactive
60s Last Painted Hero
60s Visually Complete
71.38s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.73s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.87s Largest Contentful Paint
5.3s Last Painted Hero
5.3s Visually Complete
64.14s First CPU Idle
64.14s Time To Interactive
82.13s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.71s Backend
2.1s Start Render
2.37s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
13.87s First CPU Idle
21s Visually Complete
100.07s Time To Interactive
101.06s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.72s Backend
2.8s Start Render
5.25s Largest Contentful Paint
8.79s First CPU Idle
35.68s Time To Interactive
65.1s Last Painted Hero
88.2s Visually Complete
112.18s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.82s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.83s First CPU Idle
7.1s Largest Contentful Paint
7.1s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
34.41s Time To Interactive
34.52s Fully Loaded

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#9 BBC.COM
0.85s Backend
3.3s Start Render
3.9s Largest Contentful Paint
23s Last Painted Hero
30s Visually Complete
31.3s First CPU Idle
31.3s Time To Interactive
47.32s Fully Loaded

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#10 NEW YORK TIMES
0.87s Backend
3.97s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Start Render
33.4s Last Painted Hero
33.4s Visually Complete
50.76s First CPU Idle
59.86s Time To Interactive
69.92s Fully Loaded

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#11 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
4s Start Render
4.75s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
24s Visually Complete
54.65s First CPU Idle
54.65s Time To Interactive
85.06s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
4.5s Start Render
4.62s Largest Contentful Paint
19.4s Last Painted Hero
19.4s Visually Complete
45.48s First CPU Idle
45.48s Time To Interactive
100.03s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.77s Backend
4.8s Start Render
25.91s Largest Contentful Paint
29.97s First CPU Idle
76.8s Visually Complete
114.15s Time To Interactive
119.92s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
4.9s Start Render
5.05s Largest Contentful Paint
31.7s Last Painted Hero
31.7s Visually Complete
42.4s First CPU Idle
42.4s Time To Interactive
74.96s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.66s Backend
5.5s Start Render
5.5s Largest Contentful Paint
21.41s First CPU Idle
21.41s Time To Interactive
21.6s Last Painted Hero
21.6s Visually Complete
29.05s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.78s Backend
6.1s Start Render
21.34s Largest Contentful Paint
48.2s Last Painted Hero
48.2s Visually Complete
52.89s First CPU Idle
52.89s Time To Interactive
63.56s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.2s Start Render
6.81s Largest Contentful Paint
12.55s First CPU Idle
59.4s Time To Interactive
119.9s Last Painted Hero
119.9s Visually Complete
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
1.48s Backend
9.8s Start Render
11.14s First CPU Idle
12.99s Largest Contentful Paint
13s Last Painted Hero
59.7s Visually Complete
64.37s Fully Loaded
64.78s Time To Interactive

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