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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
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Visit globe.comWe analyzed Globe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.
globe.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 199 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Globe.com, 13% (26 requests) were made to Bostonglobe.com and 8% (16 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (515 ms) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.
Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (49%)
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In fact, the total size of Globe.com main page is 2.4 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 105.5 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 105.5 kB or 76% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 36.8 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 images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 942.1 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 942.1 kB or 71% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 112.2 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 needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.2 kB or 74% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (45%)
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The browser has sent 178 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 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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globe.com accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
Impact
Issue
[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique
Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
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
ARIA IDs are not unique
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
Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).
globe.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Requests the notification permission on page load
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
globe.com SEO score
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
EN
N/A
UTF-8
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 neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Globe.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.
globe.com
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: