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
1.1s Start Render
2s Largest Contentful Paint
2s Last Painted Hero
15.6s Visually Complete
16.79s First CPU Idle
29.02s Time To Interactive
79.96s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.8s Backend
1.1s Start Render
5.03s Largest Contentful Paint
17.94s First CPU Idle
28s Last Painted Hero
48.09s Time To Interactive
69.23s Fully Loaded
70.4s Visually Complete

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.71s Backend
1.2s Start Render
4.64s Largest Contentful Paint
45.88s First CPU Idle
51.18s Time To Interactive
62s Last Painted Hero
80.7s Visually Complete
84.58s Fully Loaded

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#4 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.39s Largest Contentful Paint
1.4s Start Render
22s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
50.42s First CPU Idle
50.42s Time To Interactive
76.55s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
1.97s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
7s Visually Complete
31.38s First CPU Idle
41.88s Time To Interactive
42.93s Fully Loaded

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#6 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.8s Start Render
3.08s Largest Contentful Paint
3.1s Last Painted Hero
18.88s First CPU Idle
40.54s Time To Interactive
50s Visually Complete
119.58s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.93s Backend
1.9s Start Render
4.63s Largest Contentful Paint
15.23s First CPU Idle
15.23s Time To Interactive
15.96s Fully Loaded
16s Last Painted Hero
16s Visually Complete

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.72s Backend
2.6s Start Render
3.72s Largest Contentful Paint
16.86s First CPU Idle
26.5s Last Painted Hero
26.5s Visually Complete
34.9s Time To Interactive
46.24s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
0.75s Backend
3s Start Render
4.78s Largest Contentful Paint
10s Last Painted Hero
28.14s First CPU Idle
33.55s Time To Interactive
69.7s Visually Complete
78.82s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.47s Largest Contentful Paint
6.2s Last Painted Hero
32.1s Visually Complete
42.42s First CPU Idle
42.42s Time To Interactive
79.18s Fully Loaded

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#11 BLOOMBERG
0.75s Backend
3.6s Start Render
4.67s Largest Contentful Paint
20s Last Painted Hero
20.78s First CPU Idle
30s Visually Complete
50.46s Time To Interactive
117.36s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.45s Backend
4s Start Render
6.28s Largest Contentful Paint
6.3s Last Painted Hero
12.7s Visually Complete
41.85s First CPU Idle
56.8s Time To Interactive
81.35s Fully Loaded

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#13 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
3.87s Largest Contentful Paint
4s Start Render
9.5s Last Painted Hero
10.8s Visually Complete
25.9s First CPU Idle
25.9s Time To Interactive
27.81s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.71s Backend
4.9s Start Render
5.05s Largest Contentful Paint
16.03s First CPU Idle
40.5s Last Painted Hero
40.5s Visually Complete
44.05s Time To Interactive
72.37s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.66s Backend
5.4s Start Render
7.62s Largest Contentful Paint
18s Last Painted Hero
18s Visually Complete
35.69s First CPU Idle
35.69s Time To Interactive
71.66s Fully Loaded

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#16 NPR
0.88s Backend
5.5s Start Render
5.6s Largest Contentful Paint
30s Last Painted Hero
32s Visually Complete
60.49s First CPU Idle
67.91s Time To Interactive
98.08s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.72s Backend
5.7s Start Render
7.05s Largest Contentful Paint
7.2s Visually Complete
33.7s First CPU Idle
119.74s Time To Interactive
119.98s Fully Loaded

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#18 ESPN
0.78s Backend
5.8s Start Render
5.8s First CPU Idle
5.8s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Last Painted Hero
55s Visually Complete
59.78s Fully Loaded
62.83s Time To Interactive

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