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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

hostelbookings.net

Hostelling Scotland | Book Direct for Best Price Guaranteed!

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostelbookings.net page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostelbookings.net performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,950 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hostelbookings.net

253 ms

www.hostellingscotland.org.uk

940 ms

gtm.js

65 ms

css-script.css.v151

483 ms

brand-logo.svg

413 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hostelbookings.net, 57% (34 requests) were made to Hostellingscotland.org.uk and 12% (7 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Hostellingscotland.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 757.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hostelbookings.net main page is 2.6 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 108.8 kB

  • Original 124.0 kB
  • After minification 89.5 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.5 kB, which is 28% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 108.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 128.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Hostel Book Ings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 517.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 568.3 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 517.6 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 77.8 kB
  • After minification 77.7 kB
  • After compression 75.4 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. Hostelbookings.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (33%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hostel Book Ings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hostelbookings.net

hostelbookings.net

253 ms

www.hostellingscotland.org.uk

www.hostellingscotland.org.uk

940 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

65 ms

css-script.css.v151

css-script.css.v151

483 ms

brand-logo.svg

brand-logo.svg

413 ms

svgcollection.svg

svgcollection.svg

604 ms

highlands.svg

highlands.svg

696 ms

islands.svg

islands.svg

700 ms

lowlands.svg

lowlands.svg

870 ms

hotjar-badge-light.png

hotjar-badge-light.png

47 ms

js-scripts.js.v151

js-scripts.js.v151

535 ms

api.js

api.js

91 ms

widget-es5.min.js

widget-es5.min.js

70 ms

widget.css

widget.css

70 ms

signup-form-widget.min.js

signup-form-widget.min.js

69 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

102 ms

best-price.jpg

best-price.jpg

315 ms

hi-logo.png

hi-logo.png

495 ms

fb-logo-white.png

fb-logo-white.png

427 ms

instagram-logo-white.png

instagram-logo-white.png

532 ms

x-logo-white.png

x-logo-white.png

610 ms

you-tube-logo-white.png

you-tube-logo-white.png

686 ms

3-for-2-winter-promo-carousel-image.jpg

3-for-2-winter-promo-carousel-image.jpg

1270 ms

dog-friendly-achmelvich-beach-2.jpg

dog-friendly-achmelvich-beach-2.jpg

738 ms

unleash-your-sense-of-adventure-carousel-pic.jpg

unleash-your-sense-of-adventure-carousel-pic.jpg

512 ms

cairngorm-lodge-rentahostel-carousel.jpg

cairngorm-lodge-rentahostel-carousel.jpg

668 ms

homepage-welcome-2.jpg

homepage-welcome-2.jpg

1074 ms

region-highlights1.jpg

region-highlights1.jpg

668 ms

region-highlights-3.jpg

region-highlights-3.jpg

749 ms

region-highlights-2.jpg

region-highlights-2.jpg

830 ms

edinburgh-central-july-2024-1.jpg

edinburgh-central-july-2024-1.jpg

748 ms

new-glen-nevis-header-july-2024.jpg

new-glen-nevis-header-july-2024.jpg

774 ms

cairngorm-lodge-masthead.jpg

cairngorm-lodge-masthead.jpg

851 ms

portree-july-2024.jpg

portree-july-2024.jpg

853 ms

helmsdale-masthead.jpg

helmsdale-masthead.jpg

873 ms

alt-new-pitlochry-header-image-july-24.jpg

alt-new-pitlochry-header-image-july-24.jpg

899 ms

new-rowardennan-header-july-2024.jpg

new-rowardennan-header-july-2024.jpg

948 ms

torridon-header-july-2024.jpg

torridon-header-july-2024.jpg

949 ms

carousel-pics-7.jpg

carousel-pics-7.jpg

1067 ms

Adelle-SemiBold.woff

Adelle-SemiBold.woff

1023 ms

Europa-Regular.woff

Europa-Regular.woff

1094 ms

Europa-Bold.woff

Europa-Bold.woff

1094 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

59 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

76 ms

anchor

anchor

74 ms

underscore-min.js

underscore-min.js

34 ms

styles__ltr.css

styles__ltr.css

19 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

22 ms

signup-form-widget.css

signup-form-widget.css

48 ms

b17ea7e45a3602f5974bbe77b56c37f7.json

b17ea7e45a3602f5974bbe77b56c37f7.json

142 ms

Gar3GNXyGuEFKrsdSCNgV3EULqB3zePQrsysOZqpo_s.js

Gar3GNXyGuEFKrsdSCNgV3EULqB3zePQrsysOZqpo_s.js

110 ms

webworker.js

webworker.js

107 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

95 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

84 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

88 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc9.ttf

93 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

75 ms

anchor

anchor

78 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

7 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

21 ms

Accessibility Review

hostelbookings.net accessibility score

70

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

hostelbookings.net best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hostelbookings.net SEO score

82

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 Hostelbookings.net 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 Hostelbookings.net 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

hostelbookings.net

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