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hostels.com

Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and Reviews

Page Load Speed

24.5 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

14.7 sec

Page Rendered

9.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Hostels content for South Korea. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hostels.com

Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostels.com page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 24.1 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.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

hostels.com

406 ms

www.hostels.com

1407 ms

global_deployed.css

75 ms

ui_section_deployed.css

141 ms

drupal_home_deployed.css

359 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Hostels.com, 35% (29 requests) were made to Ihccd.hwstatic.com and 34% (28 requests) were made to Ccd.hwstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 584.8 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

592.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hostels.com main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 617.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 102.8 kB

  • Original 124.1 kB
  • After minification 101.0 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.1 kB, which is 19% 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 102.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 364.2 kB
  • After minification 357.2 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. Hostels images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 417.4 kB

  • Original 617.1 kB
  • After minification 607.6 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 417.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 71.7 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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. Hostels.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 57.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (42%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hostels. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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hostels.com

406 ms

www.hostels.com

www.hostels.com

1407 ms

global_deployed.css

global_deployed.css

75 ms

ui_section_deployed.css

ui_section_deployed.css

141 ms

drupal_home_deployed.css

drupal_home_deployed.css

359 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

359 ms

VisitorAPI.js

VisitorAPI.js

668 ms

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ga.js

291 ms

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104 ms

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2597 ms

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121 ms

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global_deployed.js

86 ms

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ui_section_deployed.js

86 ms

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84 ms

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843 ms

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794 ms

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792 ms

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792 ms

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791 ms

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792 ms

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912 ms

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686 ms

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651 ms

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685 ms

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654 ms

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654 ms

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654 ms

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654 ms

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851 ms

logo.png

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1177 ms

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1177 ms

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1376 ms

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803 ms

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199 ms

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200 ms

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198 ms

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1194 ms

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689 ms

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343 ms

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340 ms

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341 ms

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341 ms

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339 ms

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696 ms

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216 ms

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SEO Factors

hostels.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hostels.com 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 Hostels.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hostels. 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: