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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

youth-hostels.ie

Dorms.com® Student accommodation / Hostels / Gap year

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

533 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Youth-hostels.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

youth-hostels.ie performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,170 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.734

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

youth-hostels.ie

244 ms

www.dorms.com

625 ms

bootstrap.min.css

174 ms

css

158 ms

style.min.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Youth-hostels.ie, 40% (38 requests) were made to Cdn.dorms.com and 15% (14 requests) were made to Dorms.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Dorms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 812.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Youth-hostels.ie main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 793.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 120.4 kB

  • Original 137.9 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 52.7 kB, which is 38% 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 120.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 793.3 kB
  • After minification 760.2 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. Youth Hostels images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 316.0 kB

  • Original 481.7 kB
  • After minification 474.3 kB
  • After compression 165.8 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 316.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 343.3 kB

  • Original 407.4 kB
  • After minification 406.0 kB
  • After compression 64.1 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. Youth-hostels.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 343.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (65%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Youth 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 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

youth-hostels.ie

youth-hostels.ie

244 ms

www.dorms.com

www.dorms.com

625 ms

bootstrap.min.css

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174 ms

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158 ms

style.min.css

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169 ms

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164 ms

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168 ms

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397 ms

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400 ms

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423 ms

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420 ms

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419 ms

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421 ms

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421 ms

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422 ms

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423 ms

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421 ms

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423 ms

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751 ms

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999 ms

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Accessibility Review

youth-hostels.ie accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

youth-hostels.ie best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

youth-hostels.ie SEO score

85

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

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 Youth-hostels.ie 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 Youth-hostels.ie 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

youth-hostels.ie

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