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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

hotelguides.com

HotelGuides.com - Reservations Made Easy - Pay at Hotel

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

116 ms

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hotelguides.com page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hotelguides.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.173

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hotelguides.com

26 ms

hotelguides.com

90 ms

gtm.js

71 ms

Logo-Transparent.png

100 ms

tripadvisor_logo_158x29-15758-0-en_US.gif

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Hotelguides.com, 15% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Api.ipify.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 339.0 kB (67%)

Content Size

504.6 kB

After Optimization

165.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Hotelguides.com main page is 504.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 431.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 336.0 kB

  • Original 431.4 kB
  • After minification 424.4 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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 336.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 48.1 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. Hotel Guides images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 437 B

  • Original 22.6 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (33%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hotel Guides. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hotelguides.com

hotelguides.com

26 ms

hotelguides.com

hotelguides.com

90 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

71 ms

Logo-Transparent.png

Logo-Transparent.png

100 ms

tripadvisor_logo_158x29-15758-0-en_US.gif

tripadvisor_logo_158x29-15758-0-en_US.gif

76 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

38 ms

globalvals.js

globalvals.js

20 ms

resn.gif

resn.gif

21 ms

Niagara_Falls2_1020x288.jpg

Niagara_Falls2_1020x288.jpg

21 ms

logotiny.gif

logotiny.gif

18 ms

hg-logo.png

hg-logo.png

19 ms

js

js

83 ms

api.ipify.org

api.ipify.org

1439 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

resn50.gif

resn50.gif

55 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

37 ms

resn50.gif

resn50.gif

71 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

71 ms

collect

collect

16 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

Accessibility Review

hotelguides.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hotelguides.com 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

SEO Factors

hotelguides.com SEO score

64

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

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

hotelguides.com

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