Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

basecampkenya.com

Adventures - Svalbard - Safaris - Masai Mara - Kenya - Basecamp Explorer

Page Load Speed

43.3 sec in total

First Response

9.6 sec

Resources Loaded

32.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

basecampkenya.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Basecamp Kenya content for Kenya. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about basecampkenya.com

We offer unique hotels and adventures in a responsible and sustainable way. From the cradle of mankind in Africa, to the boarders of human existence in the arctic.

Visit basecampkenya.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Basecampkenya.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9.6 sec and then it took 33.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

basecampkenya.com performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

basecampkenya.com

9614 ms

basecamp.publish.visbook.com

532 ms

basecampexplorer.com

736 ms

module.css

418 ms

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

388 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Basecampkenya.com, 59% (58 requests) were made to Basecampexplorer.com and 25% (25 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source Lotienes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 875.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Basecampkenya.com main page is 5.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 43.3 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 44.7 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.7 kB, which is 16% 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 43.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 181.7 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.7 MB

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. Basecamp Kenya images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 395.2 kB

  • Original 591.9 kB
  • After minification 546.8 kB
  • After compression 196.7 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 395.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 255.7 kB

  • Original 292.6 kB
  • After minification 199.9 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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. Basecampkenya.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 255.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (53%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Basecamp Kenya. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

basecampkenya.com SEO score

0

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 Basecampkenya.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 Basecampkenya.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 Basecamp Kenya. 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: