Page speed load time - 3 seconds

[LivDetrick]

This Moz blog references a page load time of 2-3 seconds. I've seen the 3 seconds referenced elsewhere, but I'm not sure what that measurement is -- is the target a 3 second speed index, or 3 second CPU idle?  Or something else?  Curious if anyone knows the answer.

https://moz.com/blog/website-page-speed

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

It's the DOM Content Load Time or Total Load Time that you see in the console of your browser (usually under Network in your console). That number gives a good representation of how fast your site could be. That's usually what people are referring too. What I would want to add to this is that you should measure this based on the First Page Load as otherwise it could be affected by pages that load cached assets.

[LivDetrick]

Thanks!