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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202638 issues · 105 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on cusocuts.com, 12 of them high impact, across 105 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
1.6 s1.2 sMay 23Nov 71.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.5 s
May 30, 20261.5 s
Jun 6, 20261.5 s
Jun 13, 20261.5 s
Jun 20, 20261.4 s
Jun 27, 20261.4 s
Jul 4, 20261.3 s
Jul 11, 20261.3 s
Jul 18, 20261.2 s
Jul 25, 20261.2 s
Aug 1, 20261.3 s
Aug 8, 20261.3 s
Aug 15, 20261.3 s
Aug 22, 20261.4 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.4 s
Sep 12, 20261.5 s
Sep 19, 20261.6 s
Sep 26, 20261.5 s
Oct 3, 20261.5 s
Oct 10, 20261.5 s
Oct 17, 20261.5 s
Oct 24, 20261.6 s
Oct 31, 20261.5 s
Nov 7, 20261.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
164 ms153 msMay 23Nov 7162 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026154 ms
May 30, 2026155 ms
Jun 6, 2026161 ms
Jun 13, 2026162 ms
Jun 20, 2026162 ms
Jun 27, 2026161 ms
Jul 4, 2026161 ms
Jul 11, 2026162 ms
Jul 18, 2026161 ms
Jul 25, 2026158 ms
Aug 1, 2026161 ms
Aug 8, 2026158 ms
Aug 15, 2026159 ms
Aug 22, 2026161 ms
Aug 29, 2026159 ms
Sep 5, 2026158 ms
Sep 12, 2026162 ms
Sep 19, 2026162 ms
Sep 26, 2026160 ms
Oct 3, 2026162 ms
Oct 10, 2026158 ms
Oct 17, 2026162 ms
Oct 24, 2026163 ms
Oct 31, 2026163 ms
Nov 7, 2026162 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 cusocuts.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. cusocuts.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  2. cusocuts.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  3. cusocuts.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  4. cusocuts.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  5. cusocuts.com at 4.3 s4.3 s
  6. cusocuts.com at 5.1 s5.1 s
  7. cusocuts.com at 6.0 s6.0 s
  8. cusocuts.com at 6.8 s6.8 s

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

Speed

13 to fix37
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.9 s · 1.3 MB

    About 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.9 s · 1.1 MB

    19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.1 MB).

  • Mobile performance score: 37

    37/100

    Your mobile performance score is 37. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 5.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 5.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.0 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 (Google Tag Manager, alia-prod.com and route.com and others), adding 3.0 MB and 1.6 s of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    900 ms

    12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.

  • Improve image delivery

    544 KiB

    5 images could be 544 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 392 ms

    392 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 392 ms of main-thread work and 513 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.

  • alia-prod.com adds 343 ms

    343 ms

    alia-prod.com costs a phone 343 ms of main-thread work and 617 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

    300 ms · 91 KiB

    About 91 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • route.com adds 221 ms

    221 ms

    route.com costs a phone 221 ms of main-thread work and 542 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.

  • 14 long tasks on the main thread

    14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 263 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • rebuyengine.com adds 168 ms

    168 ms

    rebuyengine.com costs a phone 168 ms of main-thread work and 668 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    78 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 78 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Minify CSS

    6 KiB

    6 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.

  • 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: 9 ms

    9 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 9 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 25.6 s

    25.6 s

    Your largest element takes 25.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 34.8 s

    34.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 34.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 12.6 s

    12.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 12.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.7 s

    4.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 806 ms

    806 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 806 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 4 images without width and height

    4 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +5%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 154 ms to 162 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • 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: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 158 ms

    158 ms

    Real visitors wait 158 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 428 ms

    428 ms

    Real visitors wait 428 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix60
  • Page weight: 8.1 MB in 356 requests

    8.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 8.1 MB in 356 requests on a phone: scripts 3.1 MB (107), images 3.0 MB (27) and other files 997 KiB (176). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    369 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example heat-lovers-pack-pdp.jpg at 2,000 px wide, shown at 219 px. Resized copies would save about 369 KiB.

  • About 2.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.31 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.31 g of CO₂e: 277.2 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.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9294
  • Links must have discernible text (1 element)

    Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (30 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 30 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)

    Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate 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. (1 element).

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 4 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10086
  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“.logo_image { max-height: unset!important; } @med…” and “Goes On Everything.Hides Nothing.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • Meta description is long (217 characters)

    Your meta description is 217 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 2 problems

    Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Organization and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “WebSite: missing name”.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 57 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 57 pages on cusocuts.com and 7 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Title: 55 characters

    Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Chef Cuso's All-Natural Seasonings, Sauces, and Tallows”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://cusocuts.com/.

  • 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://cusocuts.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

3 checks passed
  • 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 (960 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

2 to fix88
  • 3 linked pages hidden from search

    /products/maple-bourbon-seasoning, /products/hot-honey-seasoning and /products/lemon-pepper-seasoning are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 1 page without an H1

    /pages/about has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 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 a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 7391
  • 2 third-party cookies

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

  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

    6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

  • Browser-reported issues

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

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    18 of 20 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • 1 broken external link

    1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.linkedin.com/company/cuso-cuts/ (404).

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (54 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for cusocuts.com and is valid for another 54 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://cusocuts.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.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    cusocuts.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

    cusocuts.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 7 years old

    7 years

    cusocuts.com was registered in May 2019 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until May 2027

    cusocuts.com is registered until May 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix93
  • 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.

  • About 945 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 945 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: “SHOP SEASONING PACKS”.

  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Shop Seasoning Packs”, “Start Building →” and “Join the Flavor Club”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

2 to fix60
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be cusocuts.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Email authentication score: 60/100

    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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  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before 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.

  • 27 cookies set on arrival

    27

    Opening the homepage sets 27 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.

  • 53 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 53 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 12 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

Blotout Edgetag · Judge Me Reviews · Rebuy Personalization Engine · Avada Seo Suite · Triplewhale · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · nfcube.com · cloudfront.net · hextom.com · route.com · rebuyengine.com · personalizer.io

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

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
Folsom

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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