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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

globe.com

The Boston Globe

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

About Website

Visit globe.com now to see the best up-to-date Globe content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about globe.com

Best live news, sports, opinion and entertainment in New England by Globe journalists. Read Spotlight Team investigations plus coverage of Celtics and Patriots.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

globe.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.336

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value49.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

globe.com

42 ms

www.bostonglobe.com

595 ms

cmp.stub.js

71 ms

otCCPAiab.js

92 ms

otSDKStub.js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Globe.com, 53% (67 requests) were made to Bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com and 22% (28 requests) were made to Bostonglobe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (12%)

Content Size

14.9 MB

After Optimization

13.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Globe.com main page is 14.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 12.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 277.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 12.6 MB
  • After minification 12.6 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Globe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 270.9 kB

  • Original 490.2 kB
  • After minification 490.2 kB
  • After compression 219.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 270.9 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 16 B

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 3.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Globe.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (64%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Globe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

globe.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

globe.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

globe.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Globe.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Globe.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Globe. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: