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hostelseurope.com

Hostels in Europe – Stay in European Hostels for less with Hostelworld

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

347 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostelseurope.com page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 3.5 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

hostelseurope.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hostelseurope.com

213 ms

europe

2304 ms

global_deployed.css

15 ms

pageredesign_deployed.css

44 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hostelseurope.com, 22% (21 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 21% (20 requests) were made to Icd.hwstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Hostelworld.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 930.9 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

768.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Hostelseurope.com main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 852.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 200.8 kB

  • Original 232.8 kB
  • After minification 221.3 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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 200.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 444.3 kB
  • After minification 408.8 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. Hostels Europe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 557.7 kB

  • Original 852.3 kB
  • After minification 846.1 kB
  • After compression 294.6 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 557.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 136.8 kB

  • Original 170.2 kB
  • After minification 170.1 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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. Hostelseurope.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (48%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hostels Europe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hostelseurope.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 Hostelseurope.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 Hostelseurope.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 Hostels Europe. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: