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hostelbookers.com

Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and Reviews

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

881 ms

About Website

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Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostelbookers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostelbookers.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hostelbookers.com

106 ms

www.hostelbookers.com

110 ms

www.hostelworld.com

717 ms

notice

133 ms

js

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Hostelbookers.com, 73% (76 requests) were made to A.hwstatic.com and 18% (19 requests) were made to Hostelworld.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (717 ms) relates to the external source Hostelworld.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Hostelbookers.com main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 235.1 kB

  • Original 256.9 kB
  • After minification 253.2 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 235.1 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 998.5 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. Hostelbookers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 426 B

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (33%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hostelbookers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hostelbookers.com SEO score

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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 Hostelbookers.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 Hostelbookers.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

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