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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

basil.com

Basil Bicycle bags & Baskets - Spread the cycling joy! - Basil

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

269 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

187 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Basil content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about basil.com

Basil designs panniers, bicycle baskets, dog bike baskets, fastening systems and other bicycle accessories. ✅ Thoughtful design ✅ E-bike perfect ✅ Waterproof ✅ Made in Holland. View now!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Basil.com page load time and found that the first response time was 269 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

basil.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,480 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.basil.nl

269 ms

style.css

101 ms

flash.js

246 ms

ga.js

14 ms

bg_3.jpg

1022 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Basil.com, 25% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 13% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Basil.nl.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

782.8 kB

After Optimization

769.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Basil.com main page is 782.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 749.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 1.4 kB or 53% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 868 B

  • Original 749.8 kB
  • After minification 748.9 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. Basil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 6.9 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Basil.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Basil. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.basil.nl

www.basil.nl

269 ms

style.css

style.css

101 ms

flash.js

flash.js

246 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

bg_3.jpg

bg_3.jpg

1022 ms

logo.png

logo.png

93 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

collect

collect

63 ms

Accessibility Review

basil.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

basil.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

basil.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Basil.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 Basil.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

basil.com

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