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boka.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202625 issues · 108 checks
This review found 25 issues worth fixing on boka.com, 7 of them high impact, across 108 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
88B- #3,814 of 81,769 reviewed websitesbeats 93%
- #1,874 of 40,563 online storesbeats 93%
- #1,808 of 35,943 Shopify storesbeats 92%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.6 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 154 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 154 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 161 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 154 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.5 s
1.1 s
1.6 s
2.2 s
2.7 s
3.3 s
3.8 s
4.4 s
boka.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.4 s · 168 KiB13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (168 KiB).
Render-blocking requests
1.5 s4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.5 s.
Main-thread work: 8.2 s
A phone's processor spends 8.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (truevaultcdn.com, Klaviyo and Shopify and others), adding 1.5 MB and 899 ms of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 63
63/100Your mobile performance score is 63. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
450 ms · 186 KiBAbout 186 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Klaviyo adds 260 ms
260 msKlaviyo costs a phone 260 ms of main-thread work and 616 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
truevaultcdn.com adds 292 ms
292 mstruevaultcdn.com costs a phone 292 ms of main-thread work and 109 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
2,773 HTML elements
The page has 2,773 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Shopify adds 141 ms
141 msShopify costs a phone 141 ms of main-thread work and 565 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 62 KiBAbout 62 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 188 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Improve image delivery
121 KiB6 images could be 121 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Legacy JavaScript
29 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 29 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify CSS
6 KiB6 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
Duplicated JavaScript
5 KiB5 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
Minify JavaScript
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
1 checks passed
Server response: 15 ms
15 msYour server sent the HTML in 15 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 17.4 s
17.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 17.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.9 s
4.9 sYour largest element takes 4.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Black Friday: get early access. Up to 30% off starting Nove…”.
Speed Index: 6.4 s
6.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 509 ms
509 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 509 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 154 ms to 154 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
9 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 154 ms
154 msReal visitors wait 154 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 741 ms
741 msReal visitors wait 741 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 20% faster for real visitors
-20%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.5 MB in 387 requests
3.5 MBYour homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 387 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (176), images 1,002 KiB (40) and other files 880 KiB (140). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image in older formats
1 image (40 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
1.01 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.01 g of CO₂e: 120.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (8 elements).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 139 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
51 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
287 internal links, 20 external
The homepage links to 287 pages on boka.com and 20 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 151 characters
Your meta description is 151 characters: “Shop Boka oral care with Nano-hydroxyapatite toothpaste, fluoride-free formulas, floss, toothbrushes, whitening, and mo…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Nano-hydroxyapatite toothpaste and oral care by Boka”.
Title: 49 characters
Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “Boka | Nano-hydroxyapatite Toothpaste & Oral Care”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.boka.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Brand, Organization and WebSite.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.boka.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Parts of the site are closed to 6 AI crawlers
Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.
Opted out of AI training for 4 crawlers
robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.
3 checks passed
Organization data: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,874 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
3 pages slow to respond
/collections/sugar-free-toothpaste, /collections/best-sellers and /collections/kids took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 69 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
3 broken images
3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.boka.com/.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught TypeError: Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
54 of 59 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (boka.com).
Valid certificate (48 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for boka.com and is valid for another 48 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://boka.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 51 links work
All 51 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 11 external) answered without errors; 6 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
boka.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.
DNSSEC is off
boka.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.
2 checks passed
Domain is 30 years old
30 yearsboka.com was registered in Oct 1996 through Cloudflare, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Oct 2027
boka.com is registered until Oct 2027.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
About 801 words of copy
The homepage carries about 801 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Subscribe & Save 15% Every Order” and “Subscribe & Save”.
25 calls to action
The homepage has 25 calls to action, for example “Subscribe & Save 15% Every Order”, “Subscribe & Save” and “Shop All Toothpaste”.
30 short forms
30 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 9 testimonial or review blocks, a star rating and “950,000+ customers”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity and Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 95/100
Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf.improvmx.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:email.rechargeapps.com include:sendgrid.net ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.
22 cookies set on arrival
22Opening the homepage sets 22 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.
38 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 38 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.
Apps your storefront loads
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Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Cloudflare Hosting
Company
- Headquarters
- Saint Louis Park
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 25 issues on boka.com, including 14 speed issues and 3 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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