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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

hihostels.be

Find a hostel for your trip to Belgium

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

437 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hihostels.be homepage info - get ready to check Hi Hostel S best content right away, or after learning these important things about hihostels.be

If you are looking for a hostel in Belgium, our organisation is the place to be. Discover our 18 unique and cosy hostels in all corners of Flanders.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hihostels.be page load time and found that the first response time was 437 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hihostels.be performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hihostels.be

437 ms

hihostels.be

370 ms

en

186 ms

fbevents.js

19 ms

gtm.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Hihostels.be, 87% (33 requests) were made to Jeugdherbergen.be and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (446 ms) relates to the external source Jeugdherbergen.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

574.4 kB

After Optimization

506.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hihostels.be main page is 574.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 389.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 69.5 kB
  • After minification 68.3 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 47.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 389.9 kB
  • After minification 384.3 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. Hi Hostel S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 87.3 kB
  • After minification 87.3 kB
  • After compression 72.4 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 14.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 160 B

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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. Hihostels.be has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (45%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hi Hostel S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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179 ms

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93 ms

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91 ms

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180 ms

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Accessibility Review

hihostels.be accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

hihostels.be best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hihostels.be SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Hihostels.be 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 Hihostels.be 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

hihostels.be

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Hi Hostel S. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: