globeandmail.com website report
The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis
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Overall score
Fair
About globeandmail.com
theglobeandmail.com is a news publication. It describes itself as “The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news”. It is also on YouTube, X and LinkedIn.
Score profile
Top issues to fix
9 issues found · 1 high priority
No H1 heading found
SEOAdd exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.
Missing X-Frame-Options header
SecurityAdd X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors rule) to prevent clickjacking via hidden iframes.
2 cookies without Secure/HttpOnly flags
SecuritySet Secure and HttpOnly on session cookies so they can't leak over HTTP or be read by injected scripts.
Title longer than 60 characters
SEOShorten the title to under 60 characters so search results don't truncate it.
robots.txt not found
SEOPublish /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive to guide crawlers.
+3 more issues — details in the sections below.
How it compares
globeandmail.com scores higher overall than 27% of the 163,243 sites we have scanned.
vs. All scanned sites
163,243 sitesThe dot is this site; the tick is the typical (median) score for the group. The number on the right is the percentile: the share of the group this site scores above.
Technology stack
No technologies were detected in the latest scan.
Hosting & DNS
- IP address
- —
- ASN
- —
- IPv6
- Not supported
- HTTP
- HTTP/2
Show DNS record values
TXT record contents are not republished; only their count is shown.
Security
globeandmail.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate valid for 104 more days and sets 2 of 6 recommended security headers.
Security headers2 of 6 set
- HSTSForces HTTPS
- CSPBlocks injected scripts
- X-Frame-OptionsStops clickjacking
- X-Content-TypeStops MIME sniffing
- Referrer-PolicyLimits URL leakage
- Permissions-PolicyRestricts browser features
TLS certificate
- Names covered
- 2
- Cookies set
- 2
Email security
globeandmail.com scores D for email security, with no SPF record and DMARC policy “quarantine”.
- SPFNot set
No SPF record: anyone can claim to send mail from this domain.
- DMARCWeak
Forged mail is sent to spam.
- MTA-STSNot set
Not published; mail to this domain can be downgraded to plaintext.
- BIMINot set
Not published (optional).
Performance & carbon
globeandmail.com scores 55/100 for performance, with an estimated load time of 1.4 s. A visit emits an estimated 1.82 g of CO2 (grade F).
Page weight
- HTML 2.8 MB
- JavaScript 1.9 MB
- CSS 139 KB
- Est. load
- 1.38 s
- Response
- 1.32 s
- Scripts / CSS
- 41 / 4
Carbon per visitF
1.82 g CO2 per uncached view
Estimate from the Sustainable Web Design model. HTML, JavaScript and CSS only; images, video and fonts are not measured. Treat it as a lower bound for comparing pages, not an audit.
SEO & accessibility
globeandmail.com scores 75/100 for SEO and 90/100 for accessibility, with 4 SEO issues to fix.
Heading structure
No H1 found.
Image alt text
224 images · 20 without alt text · 223 lazy-loaded
Links
- Internal 182
- External 66
- Broken 11
SEO issues4
- Title longer than 60 characters
- No H1 heading found
- robots.txt not found
- sitemap.xml not found
Accessibility issues1
- No H1 heading found
Technical details
Page metadata, social tags, crawl files and scan information.
Meta tags
- Title
- The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis
- Description
- The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news
- Canonical
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com
- Language
- en-CA
- Robots meta
Crawl files
- robots.txt
- Not found
- Disallow rules
- 0
- sitemap.xml
- Not found
- URLs in sitemap
- 0
Structured data
- Microdata items
- 0
- RDFa items
- 0
Scan
- Final URL
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/
- HTTP status
- 200
- Redirects
- https://globeandmail.com → https://www.theglobeandmail.com/
- Scanned
- Aug 24, 2026, 1:22 PM
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Frequently asked questions about globeandmail.com
- What is globeandmail.com?
- theglobeandmail.com is a news publication. It describes itself as “The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news”. It is also on YouTube, X and LinkedIn.
- Is globeandmail.com secure?
- globeandmail.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate valid for 104 more days and sets 2 of 6 recommended security headers.
- Is globeandmail.com protected against email spoofing?
- globeandmail.com scores D for email security, with no SPF record and DMARC policy “quarantine”.
- How does globeandmail.com compare with similar sites?
- globeandmail.com scores higher overall than 27% of the 163,243 sites we have scanned.
- What is globeandmail.com's overall score?
- globeandmail.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 76/100, combining SEO (75), performance (55), security (85) and accessibility (90).
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