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bookhostels.com

Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and Reviews

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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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 Bookhostels.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 2.4 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

bookhostels.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bookhostels.com

188 ms

partners.hostelworld.com

198 ms

style.css

93 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

257 ms

plugins.js

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bookhostels.com, 90% (28 requests) were made to Partners.hostelworld.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Secure.webresint.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (756 ms) relates to the external source Partners.hostelworld.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.3 kB (29%)

Content Size

527.5 kB

After Optimization

375.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bookhostels.com main page is 527.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 381.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.4 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 54.8 kB

  • Original 381.7 kB
  • After minification 326.9 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. Obviously, Book Hostels needs image optimization as it can save up to 54.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 71.2 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 110.6 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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 71.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Bookhostels.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (11%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Book Hostels. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bookhostels.com

bookhostels.com

188 ms

partners.hostelworld.com

partners.hostelworld.com

198 ms

style.css

style.css

93 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

257 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

178 ms

script.js

script.js

182 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

403 ms

main_bg.jpg

main_bg.jpg

181 ms

hw_logo.svg

hw_logo.svg

170 ms

intro_bg.jpg

intro_bg.jpg

183 ms

feature_bg.png

feature_bg.png

437 ms

orangearrowlarge.png

orangearrowlarge.png

179 ms

tripadvisor.png

tripadvisor.png

274 ms

lonelyplanet.png

lonelyplanet.png

255 ms

ryanair.png

ryanair.png

354 ms

trivago.png

trivago.png

359 ms

eurail.png

eurail.png

273 ms

spottedbylocals.jpg

spottedbylocals.jpg

423 ms

shadow.png

shadow.png

364 ms

spottedbylocals_zoom.png

spottedbylocals_zoom.png

544 ms

letsgo.jpg

letsgo.jpg

657 ms

letsgo_zoom.png

letsgo_zoom.png

539 ms

product.png

product.png

455 ms

reliability.png

reliability.png

508 ms

interface.png

interface.png

524 ms

technology.png

technology.png

545 ms

customercare.png

customercare.png

593 ms

groupbooking.png

groupbooking.png

611 ms

footersocial.png

footersocial.png

629 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

756 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

397 ms

SEO Factors

bookhostels.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 Bookhostels.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 Bookhostels.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Book Hostels. 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: