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
1.86s Largest Contentful Paint
45s Last Painted Hero
45s Visually Complete
47.16s First CPU Idle
79.18s Time To Interactive
100.74s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.77s Backend
1.1s Start Render
7.65s Largest Contentful Paint
12.3s Last Painted Hero
12.3s Visually Complete
15.66s First CPU Idle
15.66s Time To Interactive
18.93s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.73s Backend
1.4s Start Render
4.95s Largest Contentful Paint
24s Last Painted Hero
53.19s First CPU Idle
53.19s Time To Interactive
88s Visually Complete
93.13s Fully Loaded

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#4 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.72s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.8s Last Painted Hero
2.82s Largest Contentful Paint
32.64s First CPU Idle
59.86s Time To Interactive
60s Visually Complete
71.48s Fully Loaded

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#5 VOX
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.13s Largest Contentful Paint
4.9s Last Painted Hero
4.9s Visually Complete
11.4s First CPU Idle
41.02s Time To Interactive
45.21s Fully Loaded

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#6 FORBES
0.72s Backend
2s Start Render
2.25s Largest Contentful Paint
2.3s Last Painted Hero
10.19s First CPU Idle
58s Visually Complete
85.43s Time To Interactive
88.12s Fully Loaded

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#7 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.71s Backend
2.6s Start Render
2.65s Largest Contentful Paint
4.14s First CPU Idle
21.84s Time To Interactive
67.1s Visually Complete
95.66s Fully Loaded

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#8 BBC.COM
0.73s Backend
2.9s Start Render
3.79s Largest Contentful Paint
28.2s Last Painted Hero
31s Visually Complete
33.33s First CPU Idle
33.33s Time To Interactive
53.46s Fully Loaded

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#9 YAHOO NEWS
1.05s Backend
3.5s Start Render
3.95s First CPU Idle
6.4s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
65s Visually Complete
90.23s Time To Interactive
91.81s Fully Loaded

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#10 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
3.8s Start Render
24.4s Largest Contentful Paint
42.9s Last Painted Hero
63.87s First CPU Idle
63.87s Time To Interactive
63.9s Visually Complete
119.21s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.83s Backend
4.1s Start Render
31.91s Largest Contentful Paint
51.96s First CPU Idle
81.71s Time To Interactive
105s Visually Complete
157.54s Fully Loaded

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#12 HUFFINGTON POST
1.41s Backend
4.2s Start Render
8s Largest Contentful Paint
22s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
30.21s First CPU Idle
63.9s Time To Interactive
76.64s Fully Loaded

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#13 BLOOMBERG
0.79s Backend
5.1s Start Render
27.87s Largest Contentful Paint
30.57s First CPU Idle
31s Visually Complete
100.4s Time To Interactive
150.49s Fully Loaded

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#14 POLITICO
0.72s Backend
5.6s Start Render
5.78s Largest Contentful Paint
5.8s Visually Complete
28s Last Painted Hero
38.04s First CPU Idle
44.44s Time To Interactive
70.71s Fully Loaded

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#15 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5.9s Start Render
10.27s Largest Contentful Paint
30s Last Painted Hero
31s Visually Complete
86.53s First CPU Idle
86.53s Time To Interactive
99.13s Fully Loaded

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#16 ESPN
0.72s Backend
6s Start Render
6s First CPU Idle
6s Last Painted Hero
6.03s Largest Contentful Paint
40.8s Visually Complete
48.07s Time To Interactive
49.8s Fully Loaded

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#17 CNN
0.72s Backend
6.2s Start Render
6.95s Largest Contentful Paint
7s Last Painted Hero
12.92s First CPU Idle
106.4s Visually Complete
110.53s Time To Interactive
115.46s Fully Loaded

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#18 NPR
0.8s Backend
6.2s Start Render
19.35s Largest Contentful Paint
57.7s Last Painted Hero
57.7s Visually Complete
79.33s First CPU Idle
79.33s Time To Interactive
84.68s Fully Loaded

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