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 LA TIMES
0.79s Backend
1.1s Start Render
3s Largest Contentful Paint
4.8s Last Painted Hero
6.2s Visually Complete
15.32s First CPU Idle
41.33s Time To Interactive
57.99s Fully Loaded

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#2 USA TODAY
0.7s Backend
1.2s Start Render
1.97s Largest Contentful Paint
10.4s Last Painted Hero
19.96s First CPU Idle
28.28s Time To Interactive
39.3s Visually Complete
56.92s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.7s Backend
1.2s Start Render
4.21s Largest Contentful Paint
7.4s Last Painted Hero
40.6s First CPU Idle
40.6s Time To Interactive
41.1s Visually Complete
46.26s Fully Loaded

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#4 FORBES
0.74s Backend
1.4s Start Render
2.6s Largest Contentful Paint
3.2s Last Painted Hero
11.6s Visually Complete
37.64s First CPU Idle
37.64s Time To Interactive
42.35s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.6s Start Render
7.28s Largest Contentful Paint
7.6s Last Painted Hero
18.5s Visually Complete
22.38s First CPU Idle
22.38s Time To Interactive
27.41s Fully Loaded

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#6 BBC.COM
0.76s Backend
1.7s Start Render
4.98s Largest Contentful Paint
8.5s Last Painted Hero
8.75s First CPU Idle
21s Visually Complete
33.44s Time To Interactive
36.83s Fully Loaded

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#7 VOX
0.7s Backend
1.8s Start Render
2.07s Largest Contentful Paint
6.4s Last Painted Hero
6.4s Visually Complete
33.43s First CPU Idle
33.43s Time To Interactive
33.92s Fully Loaded

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#8 YAHOO NEWS
0.81s Backend
2.23s Start Render
3.82s Last Painted Hero
16.67s Largest Contentful Paint
29.9s First CPU Idle
29.9s Time To Interactive
51.19s Visually Complete
67.15s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.74s Backend
3.5s Start Render
17.4s First CPU Idle
23.16s Largest Contentful Paint
23.2s Last Painted Hero
29.7s Visually Complete
38.96s Time To Interactive
86.33s Fully Loaded

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#10 HUFFINGTON POST
1.42s Backend
3.8s Start Render
5.37s Largest Contentful Paint
17s Last Painted Hero
32.1s Visually Complete
43.27s First CPU Idle
43.27s Time To Interactive
68.99s Fully Loaded

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#11 NEW YORK TIMES
0.74s Backend
3.9s Start Render
32.3s Largest Contentful Paint
33.57s First CPU Idle
105.8s Visually Complete
117.23s Time To Interactive
124.45s Fully Loaded

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#12 BLOOMBERG
0.74s Backend
4s Start Render
4.3s Largest Contentful Paint
23.27s First CPU Idle
50.25s Time To Interactive
72.6s Visually Complete
79.99s Fully Loaded

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#13 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.88s Backend
4.4s Start Render
4.4s First CPU Idle
33.36s Time To Interactive
35.08s Largest Contentful Paint
35.4s Visually Complete
35.5s Last Painted Hero
49.05s Fully Loaded

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#14 NPR
0.84s Backend
5.2s Start Render
5.49s Largest Contentful Paint
16.9s Last Painted Hero
20.4s Visually Complete
49.18s First CPU Idle
49.18s Time To Interactive
51.68s Fully Loaded

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#15 CNN
0.72s Backend
5.58s Start Render
6s Largest Contentful Paint
9.59s First CPU Idle
102.05s Last Painted Hero
107.44s Visually Complete
119.59s Time To Interactive
119.81s Fully Loaded

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#16 ESPN
0.77s Backend
5.8s Start Render
5.8s First CPU Idle
6.69s Largest Contentful Paint
51s Last Painted Hero
53.02s Time To Interactive
55.6s Visually Complete
59.75s Fully Loaded

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