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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

globeandmail.ca

The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

globeandmail.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Globe And Mail content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about globeandmail.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globeandmail.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

globeandmail.ca performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,600 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.193

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theglobeandmail.com

2280 ms

default.css

29 ms

default.css

51 ms

zephr-browser.umd.js

41 ms

gpt.js

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Globeandmail.ca, 2% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Assets.zephr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Theglobeandmail.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (61%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Globeandmail.ca main page is 4.8 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. HTML takes 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 2.6 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 461.2 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 2.6 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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 And Mail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 258.1 kB

  • Original 651.9 kB
  • After minification 651.9 kB
  • After compression 393.8 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 258.1 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Globeandmail.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (11%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

83

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Globe And Mail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

globeandmail.ca accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

globeandmail.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

globeandmail.ca SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Globeandmail.ca 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 Globeandmail.ca 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

globeandmail.ca

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