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hoteldirect.me

HotelDirect.com: 87,421 hotels worldwide, lowest rates, hotel reviews | Hotel Direct

Page Load Speed

50.2 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

49.5 sec

Page Rendered

426 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hoteldirect.me page load time and found that the first response time was 300 ms and then it took 49.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 25 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

hoteldirect.me performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hoteldirect.me

300 ms

www.hoteldirect.com

329 ms

style.css

187 ms

galleria.classic.css

182 ms

1-default.css

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 176 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hoteldirect.me, 48% (84 requests) were made to Hoteldirect.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Hoteldirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (60%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

835.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Hoteldirect.me main page is 2.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 871.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 261.9 kB

  • Original 295.4 kB
  • After minification 286.8 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 261.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 587.6 kB
  • After minification 552.5 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. Hotel Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 671.8 kB

  • Original 871.5 kB
  • After minification 788.5 kB
  • After compression 199.7 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 671.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 259.7 kB

  • Original 309.5 kB
  • After minification 272.2 kB
  • After compression 49.8 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. Hoteldirect.me needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 259.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (69%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hotel Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Hoteldirect.me 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 Hoteldirect.me 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 Hotel Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: