Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

motel6.com

Motel 6 - Find Discount Motels Nationwide & Book Motel Reservations

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

924 ms

Page Rendered

77 ms

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About Website

Welcome to motel6.com homepage info - get ready to check Motel 6 best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about motel6.com

Find discount motels at over 1,300 locations from the Motel 6 official site. Book motel reservations online always at the best available rate with free wifi.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Motel6.com page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

motel6.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

motel6.com

111 ms

www.motel6.com

284 ms

dtagent621_agbxnpr23_1027.js

13 ms

headerlibs.css

50 ms

headerlibs.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Motel6.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (292 ms) belongs to the original domain Motel6.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (81%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

311.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Motel6.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. 75% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 33.9 kB
  • After minification 32.5 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 26.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 10.7 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. Motel 6 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 933.1 kB
  • After compression 247.2 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 1.1 MB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 232.3 kB

  • Original 278.9 kB
  • After minification 254.6 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Motel6.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 232.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (47%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Motel 6. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

motel6.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

motel6.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

motel6.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Motel6.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 Motel6.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 description is not detected on the main page of Motel 6. 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: