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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

houstonhostel.com

Houston International Hostel - The Small Hostel in the Big State.

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

403 ms

Resources Loaded

845 ms

Page Rendered

111 ms

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About Website

Welcome to houstonhostel.com homepage info - get ready to check Houston Hostel best content right away, or after learning these important things about houstonhostel.com

The Hostel is located in the Museum District; just blocks from Hermann Park. Come stay with us and enjoy the Beautiful Texas afternoons under the big Cypress tree in our front yard.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houstonhostel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 403 ms and then it took 956 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houstonhostel.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houstonhostel.com

403 ms

style1.css

125 ms

hih.gif

157 ms

HH_CrilleeFont.jpg

156 ms

Hostel_Day_WebSite.jpg

374 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Houstonhostel.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (403 ms) belongs to the original domain Houstonhostel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.7 kB (14%)

Content Size

91.5 kB

After Optimization

78.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houstonhostel.com main page is 91.5 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 77.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 7.1 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 2.6 kB, which is 27% 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 6.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 77.9 kB
  • After minification 75.5 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. Houston Hostel images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 562 B

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. Houstonhostel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houston Hostel. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

houstonhostel.com

houstonhostel.com

403 ms

style1.css

style1.css

125 ms

hih.gif

hih.gif

157 ms

HH_CrilleeFont.jpg

HH_CrilleeFont.jpg

156 ms

Hostel_Day_WebSite.jpg

Hostel_Day_WebSite.jpg

374 ms

HA_reserve_here.gif

HA_reserve_here.gif

101 ms

Accessibility Review

houstonhostel.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

houstonhostel.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

houstonhostel.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Houstonhostel.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 Houstonhostel.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

houstonhostel.com

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