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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

boston.hotelguide.net

Boston Hotels: Find Boston Hotel Information and Read Reviews by HotelGuide

Page Load Speed

20.9 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

20.6 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Boston Hotel Guide content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about boston.hotelguide.net

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boston.hotelguide.net page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 20.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

boston.hotelguide.net performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boston.hotelguide.net

109 ms

hg-home-std.v3.css

185 ms

adsbygoogle.js

69 ms

t_hg.v3.gif

186 ms

mcmn.png

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Boston.hotelguide.net, 74% (20 requests) were made to Lib.nu and 11% (3 requests) were made to Ads.metromanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Ads.metromanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

107.5 kB

After Optimization

89.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boston.hotelguide.net main page is 107.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 80.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 17.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Boston Hotel Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 43 B

  • Original 80.6 kB
  • After minification 80.6 kB
  • After compression 80.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 320 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Boston.hotelguide.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320 B or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Hotel Guide. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

boston.hotelguide.net

boston.hotelguide.net

109 ms

hg-home-std.v3.css

hg-home-std.v3.css

185 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

69 ms

t_hg.v3.gif

t_hg.v3.gif

186 ms

mcmn.png

mcmn.png

188 ms

talk.gif

talk.gif

189 ms

b_hg_go.gif

b_hg_go.gif

188 ms

htlplnr_em.js

htlplnr_em.js

20495 ms

468x60.js

468x60.js

20497 ms

160x600.js

160x600.js

20497 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

44 ms

front.asp

front.asp

107 ms

hg-home-std.v3.css

hg-home-std.v3.css

148 ms

t_hg.v3.gif

t_hg.v3.gif

145 ms

mcmn.png

mcmn.png

155 ms

talk.gif

talk.gif

175 ms

b_hg_go.gif

b_hg_go.gif

174 ms

mini_hg.gif

mini_hg.gif

31 ms

mini_eg.gif

mini_eg.gif

32 ms

l_mgn_36C.gif

l_mgn_36C.gif

31 ms

m_hgbos-hp.gif

m_hgbos-hp.gif

32 ms

smileysml_hg_3.0.gif

smileysml_hg_3.0.gif

30 ms

smileysml_hg_3.0.gif

smileysml_hg_3.0.gif

73 ms

mini_hg.gif

mini_hg.gif

36 ms

l_mgn_36C.gif

l_mgn_36C.gif

37 ms

mini_eg.gif

mini_eg.gif

36 ms

m_hgbos-hp.gif

m_hgbos-hp.gif

79 ms

Accessibility Review

boston.hotelguide.net accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

boston.hotelguide.net best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

boston.hotelguide.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boston.hotelguide.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Boston.hotelguide.net main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

boston.hotelguide.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Boston Hotel Guide. 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: