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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

hotwire.com

Cheap Hotels, Cars, & Flights | Last Minute Travel Deals | Hotwire

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

307 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

478 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hotwire.com page load time and found that the first response time was 307 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hotwire.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hotwire.com

307 ms

webfonts-eg.min.css

134 ms

bundle.a81bcac0f2e4.css

74 ms

expads-blocked.js

158 ms

c4e95370040b11ebaef30a6ad8b0a4a1.js

982 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Hotwire.com, 29% (10 requests) were made to Ak-secure.hotwirestatic.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Me.hotwire.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Ak-secure.hotwirestatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 187.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

984.1 kB

After Optimization

796.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hotwire.com main page is 984.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 588.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 44.2 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 34.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 588.6 kB
  • After minification 576.7 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. Hotwire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 141.3 kB

  • Original 350.8 kB
  • After minification 349.6 kB
  • After compression 209.6 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 141.3 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 308 B

  • Original 470 B
  • After minification 470 B
  • After compression 162 B

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. Hotwire.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 308 B or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (43%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hotwire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.hotwire.com

www.hotwire.com

307 ms

webfonts-eg.min.css

webfonts-eg.min.css

134 ms

bundle.a81bcac0f2e4.css

bundle.a81bcac0f2e4.css

74 ms

expads-blocked.js

expads-blocked.js

158 ms

c4e95370040b11ebaef30a6ad8b0a4a1.js

c4e95370040b11ebaef30a6ad8b0a4a1.js

982 ms

runtime.96a6bf597e7a.js

runtime.96a6bf597e7a.js

56 ms

vendor.4b2ebaf1f404.js

vendor.4b2ebaf1f404.js

72 ms

bundle.d40deae6547c.js

bundle.d40deae6547c.js

136 ms

detector-dom.min.js

detector-dom.min.js

146 ms

YxZUweNRc

YxZUweNRc

119 ms

JTJ9F-QCCRY-ZNY8V-3RCJC-SDDA6

JTJ9F-QCCRY-ZNY8V-3RCJC-SDDA6

1242 ms

datadog-rum.js

datadog-rum.js

1126 ms

hotwire-logo.svg

hotwire-logo.svg

1274 ms

hotwireMe.js

hotwireMe.js

1014 ms

utag.js

utag.js

999 ms

campaign.js

campaign.js

594 ms

app.js

app.js

839 ms

ads-loader.es5.js

ads-loader.es5.js

506 ms

stats

stats

424 ms

manifest.json

manifest.json

358 ms

pattern_gray_tiled-sm.png

pattern_gray_tiled-sm.png

504 ms

uhp-confidence-992@1x.png

uhp-confidence-992@1x.png

678 ms

icon-chevron-down.svg

icon-chevron-down.svg

501 ms

expedia_group.svg

expedia_group.svg

679 ms

Lato-Regular.woff

Lato-Regular.woff

678 ms

Lato-Bold.woff

Lato-Bold.woff

687 ms

YxZUweNRc

YxZUweNRc

487 ms

config.json

config.json

258 ms

uhp-1920px.jpg

uhp-1920px.jpg

941 ms

icon-calendar-hw.svg

icon-calendar-hw.svg

81 ms

gate.html

gate.html

147 ms

www.hotwire.com-prod-config.json

www.hotwire.com-prod-config.json

774 ms

aksb.min.js

aksb.min.js

657 ms

CwY

CwY

488 ms

https:/

https:/

3 ms

Accessibility Review

hotwire.com accessibility score

79

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

hotwire.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hotwire.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Hotwire.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 Hotwire.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

hotwire.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hotwire. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: