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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

globeandmail.com

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

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

738 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globeandmail.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

globeandmail.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theglobeandmail.com

152 ms

www-css-core-composite-section.css

83 ms

www-js-core.js

112 ms

media.voice.js

72 ms

Bootstrap.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 151 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Globeandmail.com, 15% (22 requests) were made to Theglobeandmail.com and 13% (19 requests) were made to Beta.images.theglobeandmail.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (402 ms) relates to the external source Pubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

994.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Globeandmail.com main page is 2.3 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 170.7 kB

  • Original 224.0 kB
  • After minification 222.8 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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 170.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 490.6 kB
  • After minification 455.4 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. Globe And Mail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 899.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 452.2 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 899.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 176.9 kB

  • Original 210.6 kB
  • After minification 205.4 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 176.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (48%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 124 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 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

globeandmail.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Best Practices

globeandmail.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

globeandmail.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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.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 Globeandmail.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

globeandmail.com

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: