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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

theglobeandmail.ca

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

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

427 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theglobeandmail.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theglobeandmail.ca performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theglobeandmail.com

89 ms

www-css-core-composite-section.css

60 ms

www-js-core.js

58 ms

media.voice.js

49 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Theglobeandmail.ca, 14% (21 requests) were made to Theglobeandmail.com and 14% (20 requests) were made to Beta.images.theglobeandmail.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (589 ms) relates to the external source Static.theglobeandmail.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (54%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theglobeandmail.ca main page is 2.2 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 181.0 kB

  • Original 235.7 kB
  • After minification 234.9 kB
  • After compression 54.8 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 181.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 573.3 kB
  • After minification 522.9 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. The Globe And Mail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 768.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 391.8 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 768.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 178.7 kB

  • Original 213.0 kB
  • After minification 207.3 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. Theglobeandmail.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (46%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The 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 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

theglobeandmail.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

theglobeandmail.ca 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

theglobeandmail.ca 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 Theglobeandmail.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 Theglobeandmail.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

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