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
1.2s Start Render
1.97s Largest Contentful Paint
9s Last Painted Hero
9s Visually Complete
11.95s First CPU Idle
28.49s Time To Interactive
81.53s Fully Loaded

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#2 LA TIMES
0.79s Backend
1.2s Start Render
4.78s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
21s Visually Complete
31.62s First CPU Idle
31.62s Time To Interactive
39.44s Fully Loaded

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#3 BUZZFEED
0.72s Backend
1.3s Start Render
5.39s Largest Contentful Paint
48.17s First CPU Idle
48.17s Time To Interactive
48.5s Last Painted Hero
48.5s Visually Complete
53.13s Fully Loaded

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#4 FORBES
0.72s Backend
1.4s Start Render
9.42s First CPU Idle
26.5s Last Painted Hero
26.5s Visually Complete
26.89s Largest Contentful Paint
58.87s Time To Interactive
67.02s Fully Loaded

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#5 BUSINESS INSIDER
0.71s Backend
1.6s Start Render
2.98s Largest Contentful Paint
3s Last Painted Hero
40.31s First CPU Idle
40.31s Time To Interactive
51s Visually Complete
119.72s Fully Loaded

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#6 VOX
0.71s Backend
1.7s Start Render
1.8s Largest Contentful Paint
6.9s Last Painted Hero
6.9s Visually Complete
33.52s First CPU Idle
33.52s Time To Interactive
40.2s Fully Loaded

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#7 BBC.COM
0.75s Backend
2.8s Start Render
3.96s Largest Contentful Paint
21.6s Last Painted Hero
21.6s Visually Complete
28.09s First CPU Idle
28.09s Time To Interactive
30.32s Fully Loaded

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#8 NEW YORK TIMES
0.72s Backend
2.8s Start Render
2.9s Largest Contentful Paint
33.4s Last Painted Hero
33.4s Visually Complete
35.3s First CPU Idle
101.87s Time To Interactive
120s Fully Loaded

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#9 WASHINGTON POST
0.72s Backend
3.1s Start Render
3.36s Largest Contentful Paint
21s Last Painted Hero
42.4s Visually Complete
43.99s First CPU Idle
43.99s Time To Interactive
49.23s Fully Loaded

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#10 YAHOO NEWS
0.75s Backend
3.3s Start Render
4.39s Largest Contentful Paint
37.75s First CPU Idle
76s Last Painted Hero
76.3s Visually Complete
80.43s Time To Interactive
88.77s Fully Loaded

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#11 BLOOMBERG
0.76s Backend
3.6s Start Render
4.13s Largest Contentful Paint
27s Last Painted Hero
28.18s First CPU Idle
30.9s Visually Complete
57.25s Time To Interactive
118.78s Fully Loaded

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#12 NPR
0.78s Backend
4.1s Start Render
4.19s Largest Contentful Paint
5.64s First CPU Idle
20s Last Painted Hero
22s Visually Complete
50.32s Time To Interactive
53.56s Fully Loaded

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#13 FINANCIAL TIMES
0.97s Backend
4.2s Start Render
5.62s Largest Contentful Paint
5.94s First CPU Idle
15.99s Time To Interactive
16.72s Fully Loaded
16.8s Last Painted Hero
16.8s Visually Complete

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#14 HUFFINGTON POST
1.45s Backend
4.2s Start Render
8.67s Largest Contentful Paint
17.3s Last Painted Hero
17.3s Visually Complete
59.21s First CPU Idle
59.21s Time To Interactive
119.06s Fully Loaded

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#15 POLITICO
0.7s Backend
4.6s Start Render
4.71s Largest Contentful Paint
9.1s Visually Complete
14.35s First CPU Idle
38.9s Last Painted Hero
41.74s Time To Interactive
46.65s Fully Loaded

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#16 THE ONION
0.67s Backend
5s Start Render
15.87s Largest Contentful Paint
25s Last Painted Hero
26s Visually Complete
50.78s First CPU Idle
50.78s Time To Interactive
56.36s Fully Loaded

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#17 ESPN
0.73s Backend
5.4s Start Render
5.4s First CPU Idle
5.4s Largest Contentful Paint
5.4s Last Painted Hero
47s Visually Complete
64.52s Fully Loaded
66.95s Time To Interactive

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#18 CNN
0.71s Backend
6.5s Start Render
7.3s Largest Contentful Paint
9.2s Visually Complete
36.72s First CPU Idle
70.22s Time To Interactive
119.97s Fully Loaded

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