Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

390 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostelhiker.com page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostelhiker.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hostelhiker.com

75 ms

www.hostelhiker.com

932 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

16 ms

gtranslate-style32.css

15 ms

flick.css

386 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Hostelhiker.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Pixel.wp.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Hostelhiker.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 406.0 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

949.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Hostelhiker.com main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 827.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 39.0 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 30.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 37.0 kB

  • Original 827.9 kB
  • After minification 790.9 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. Hostelhiker images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 199.0 kB

  • Original 308.3 kB
  • After minification 275.0 kB
  • After compression 109.2 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 199.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 139.6 kB

  • Original 179.6 kB
  • After minification 143.7 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Hostelhiker.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (63%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hostelhiker. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hostelhiker.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hostelhiker.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Hostelhiker.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 Hostelhiker. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: