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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% 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

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

bostonglobe.com

The Boston Globe

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

495 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Boston Globe content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bostonglobe.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 Bostonglobe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 495 ms and then it took 5.8 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

bostonglobe.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.204

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bostonglobe.com

495 ms

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62 ms

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78 ms

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83 ms

meter.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Bostonglobe.com, 51% (62 requests) were made to Bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to B.bostonglobemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostonglobe.com main page is 2.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 257.3 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 1.4 MB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 668.9 kB
  • After minification 661.0 kB

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. Boston Globe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 321.7 kB
  • After minification 321.7 kB
  • After compression 321.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

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. Bostonglobe.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (69%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bostonglobe.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

bostonglobe.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

bostonglobe.com SEO score

77

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bostonglobe.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 Bostonglobe.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

bostonglobe.com

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