Site Load Performance Benchmarks

The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple compiled the following numbers for the time it takes various tech sites to load in a browser in late 2011:

  • The Loop: 38 requests; 38.66KB; 1.89 secs
  • Daring Fireball: 23 requests; 49.82KB; 566 milliseconds
  • Macworld: 130 requests; 338.32KB; 8.54 secs
  • Ars Technica: 120 requests; 185.99KB; 2.08 secs
  • Apple: 46 requests; 419KB; 1.39 secs
  • CNN: 196 requests; 269.41KB; 4 secs
  • BGR: 368 requests; 2.74MB; 35.33 secs
  • AppleInsider: 141 requests; 649.39KB; 5.64 secs
  • Facebook: 137 requests; 993.54KB; 11.19 secs
  • MacStories: 119 requests; 2.16MB; 2.13 secs

John Gruber started this by calling out The Next Web for it’s slow performance:

  • TheNextWeb: 342 requests; 6MB; no time info

More benchmarks can be seen at Browsermob.