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hikoco.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202639 issues · 102 checks
This review found 39 issues worth fixing on hikoco.com, 12 of them high impact, across 102 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
85B- #11,940 of 88,795 reviewed websitesbeats 82%
- #7,072 of 46,206 online storesbeats 79%
- #6,849 of 41,470 Shopify storesbeats 78%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.3 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 117 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 130 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
1.0 s
1.4 s
1.9 s
2.4 s
2.9 s
3.4 s
3.9 s
hikoco.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
5,667 HTML elements
The page has 5,667 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Main-thread work: 4.6 s
A phone's processor spends 4.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Mobile performance score: 70
70/100Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
750 ms · 217 KiBAbout 217 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Judge.me and Klaviyo and others), adding 1.4 MB and 662 ms of main-thread time.
Render-blocking requests
650 ms9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 281 KiB11 images could be 281 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 70 KiBAbout 70 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.
Shopify adds 257 ms
257 msShopify costs a phone 257 ms of main-thread work and 417 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.
4 long tasks on the main thread
4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 82 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
59 KiB11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (59 KiB).
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Legacy JavaScript
40 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 40 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.
Minify JavaScript
3 KiB3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Minify CSS
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 12 ms
12 msYour server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
Largest Contentful Paint: 9.7 s
9.7 sYour largest element takes 9.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 13.8 s
13.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 13.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 5.8 s
5.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Tap response (INP) got 26% slower for real visitors
+26%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 130 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 3.0 s
3.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 3.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
12 images without width and height
12 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.2 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
4 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 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).
Total Blocking Time: 35 ms
35 msScripts block the page for only 35 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
1 image over 500 KB
1103BRANDWEEK_NINELESS_gwp_websquare.png weighs 1.4 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
1 image far larger than shown
1.4 MB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example 1103BRANDWEEK_NINELESS_gwp_websquare.png at 3,600 px wide, shown at 60 px. Resized copies would save about 1.4 MB.
Page weight: 3.6 MB in 263 requests
3.6 MBYour homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 263 requests on a phone: scripts 1.0 MB (98), other files 1,018 KiB (105) and images 938 KiB (30). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
1103_BRAND_WEEK__NINELESS_TV.png is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
1 image in older formats
1 image (35 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: 121.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
49 text elements with low contrast
49 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Hidden but focusable
12 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
2 images without alt text
2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (6 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
58 form fields without a label
58 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
10 links without text
10 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
1 checks passed
49 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: 49 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
381 internal links, 37 external
The homepage links to 381 pages on hikoco.com and 37 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 157 characters
Your meta description is 157 characters: “The best way to discover and shop for the newest Korean beauty, skincare, makeup and cosmetics. Bringing you the latest…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “HIKOCO”.
Title: 50 characters
Your title is a healthy 50 characters: “HIKOCO - Korean Beauty, Skincare & Makeup Products”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://hikoco.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://hikoco.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
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 (2,473 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
6 pages without a meta description
/collections/oil-cleanser, /collections/water-based-cleanser, /collections/chemical-exfoliator, /collections/physical-exfoliator, /collections/watery-toner and /collections/toner-pad have 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 196 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
12 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 12 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
7 small tap targets
7 of 31 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://simte.xyz/hikoco (404).
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://hikoco.com/account.
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (hikoco.com).
Valid certificate (44 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for hikoco.com and is valid for another 44 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://hikoco.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
Domain expires in 74 days
hikoco.com is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.
No CAA record
hikoco.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
hikoco.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.
1 checks passed
Domain is 10 years old
10 yearshikoco.com was registered in Jan 2016 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 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 1,349 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,349 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
23 calls to action
The homepage has 23 calls to action, for example “Contact Lens”, “Contact Lens Care” and “Contact Lens Expand submenu”.
5 short forms
5 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 225 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be hikoco.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.
1 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.hostedemail.com ~all”.
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.
15 cookies set on arrival
15Opening the homepage sets 15 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
34 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 34 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 9 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
Eg Auto Add To Cart · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Judge Me Reviews · Avada Faqs · Now In Stock · Prod Master Fad8e300 · Iwish · Gift Box Builder · smile.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
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 39 issues on hikoco.com, including 16 speed issues, 2 SEO 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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