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basiclab.com

Basic Laboratory, Inc. | Northern California analytical environmental testing lab

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

386 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

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Certified, full-service analytical testing laboratory in Northern California. Environmental tests, water sampling, chemical analysis. Environmental lab testing services by multiple EPA methods, UCMR5,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Basiclab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 386 ms and then it took 4.8 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

basiclab.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

basiclab.com

386 ms

basiclab.com

703 ms

www.basiclab.com

908 ms

styles.css

355 ms

global.js

527 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Basiclab.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Basiclab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.0 kB (29%)

Content Size

382.2 kB

After Optimization

270.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Basiclab.com main page is 382.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 223.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 13.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 261 B

  • Original 223.4 kB
  • After minification 223.1 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. Basic Lab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 112.1 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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 74.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Basiclab.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (41%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Basic Lab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Basiclab.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 Basiclab.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

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