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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202637 issues · 100 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on choco.com, 12 of them high impact, across 100 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.9 s1.7 sMay 9Oct 242.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.1 s
May 16, 20262.1 s
May 23, 20262.1 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.9 s
Jun 13, 20261.8 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20262.0 s
Jul 11, 20262.1 s
Jul 18, 20262.1 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20262.6 s
Aug 8, 20262.7 s
Aug 15, 20262.7 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.6 s
Sep 5, 20262.4 s
Sep 12, 20262.3 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.2 s
Oct 17, 20262.3 s
Oct 24, 20262.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
204 ms77 msMay 9Oct 24151 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026104 ms
May 16, 2026106 ms
May 23, 2026103 ms
May 30, 2026100 ms
Jun 6, 2026101 ms
Jun 13, 2026104 ms
Jun 20, 202697 ms
Jun 27, 202695 ms
Jul 4, 202692 ms
Jul 11, 202692 ms
Jul 18, 202696 ms
Jul 25, 202698 ms
Aug 1, 2026129 ms
Aug 8, 2026134 ms
Aug 15, 2026139 ms
Aug 22, 2026145 ms
Aug 29, 2026151 ms
Sep 5, 2026172 ms
Sep 12, 2026189 ms
Sep 19, 2026163 ms
Sep 26, 2026164 ms
Oct 3, 2026169 ms
Oct 10, 2026165 ms
Oct 17, 2026179 ms
Oct 24, 2026151 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

Full-page screenshot of choco.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. choco.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. choco.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. choco.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. choco.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  5. choco.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  6. choco.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  7. choco.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  8. choco.com at 3.5 s3.5 s

choco.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

9 to fix42
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.5 s · 1.0 MB

    About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 42

    42/100

    Your mobile performance score is 42 (desktop: 56). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Vimeo and Cookiebot and others), adding 20.3 MB and 738 ms of main-thread time.

  • Vimeo adds 207 ms

    207 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 207 ms of main-thread work and 19.4 MB 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

    1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 750 ms.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    300 ms · 215 KiB

    16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (215 KiB).

  • Google Tag Manager adds 430 ms

    430 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 430 ms of main-thread work and 683 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    300 ms · 97 KiB

    3 images could be 97 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 3.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Font display

    250 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 250 ms).

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 178 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 22 KiB

    About 22 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    10 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Server response: 11 ms

    11 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 11 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

12 to fix0
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user TTFB: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    Real visitors wait 2.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 11.3 s

    11.3 s

    Your largest element takes 11.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “-”.

  • Time to Interactive: 17.7 s

    17.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 17.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.7 s

    5.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.5 s

    8.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.4 s

    3.4 s

    Real visitors wait 3.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.19

    0.19

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.19 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 57% slower for real visitors

    +57%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 151 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user FCP: 2.9 s

    2.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.168

    0.168

    The layout shifts by 0.168 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Total Blocking Time: 345 ms

    345 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 345 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 12% slower for real visitors

    +12%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 20.9 MB in 108 requests

    20.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 20.9 MB in 108 requests on a phone: other files 18.2 MB (45), scripts 1.9 MB (22) and images 421 KiB (30). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 5.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    5.93 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 5.93 g of CO₂e: 711.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 8693
  • 6 text elements with low contrast

    6 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 5 tap targets too small

    5 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (3 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 6 links without text

    6 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 24 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 41 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9294
  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (untyped) but with 1 problem, for example “ld+json block 1 is not valid JSON (Unexpected end of JSON input)”.

  • 2 links crawlers can't follow

    2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 67 internal links, 17 external

    The homepage links to 67 pages on choco.com and 17 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 158 characters

    Your meta description is 158 characters: “Grow your margins with AI powered ordering, digital storefronts, sales tools and payment solutions. All built to drive …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “BE THE DISTRIBUTOR THAT”.

  • Title: 58 characters

    Your title is a healthy 58 characters: “Choco | The Complete Growth Platform for Food Distributors”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://choco.com/us/.

  • 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://choco.com/us/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

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  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (642 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (18 KiB, 83 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix88
  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    /us/dot-foods is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 1 page without a meta description

    /us/mission has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 5888
  • 2 third-party cookies

    2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “%c%d font-size:0;color:transparent NaN”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    12 of 13 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix94
  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (choco.com).

  • Valid certificate (50 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for choco.com and is valid for another 50 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://choco.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 35 links work

    All 35 links checked from your homepage (26 internal, 9 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    choco.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

    choco.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.

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  • Domain is 30 years old

    30 years

    choco.com was registered in Jun 1996 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jun 2027

    choco.com is registered until Jun 2027.

Content and conversion

2 to fix70
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • 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 form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 514 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 514 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Request Demo”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Request Demo”, “Learn more >” and “Pricing”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight.

Email authentication

95
  • 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.

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  • 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.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:eu-sender.zoho-inventory.com i…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “k1” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 8 cookies set on arrival

    8

    Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 17 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 17 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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  • Consent tool: Cookiebot

    A consent management tool (Cookiebot) loads with the page.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
Tailwind CSS
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
OVHcloud

Hiring

Hiring
1 open role
Teams
Operations (1)
Job board
ashby

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