kamikoto.com website review

About 251 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 49. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and shgcdn2.com and others), adding 734 KiB and 752 ms of main-thread time.

19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (274 KiB).

13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 345 ms of main-thread work and 312 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 244 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

About 19 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

1 image could be 8 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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

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 visitors wait 5.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 5.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 18.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Kanpeki Knife Set - Buy 1 Get 1 Free”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 18.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 5.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 339 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.2 s to 5.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 330 requests on a phone: scripts 1.0 MB (85), other files 981 KiB (180) and images 809 KiB (49). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example SensehiNav_1530177040176.png at 500 px wide, shown at 100 px. Resized copies would save about 146 KiB.

5 images (322 KiB) are 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.

1 image further down the page (41 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.84 g of CO₂e: 100.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

8 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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

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

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your meta description is 232 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 58 pages on kamikoto.com and 7 external pages.

https://kamikoto.com/collections/store, https://kamikoto.com/pages/kamikoto-reviews, https://kamikoto.com/pages/chef, https://kamikoto.com/pages/contact-us and https://kamikoto.com/pages/black-friday-sale have no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

/ and https://kamikoto.com/pages/13-inch-yanagiba all use the title “Kamikoto Knives | Masters of Tradition - Japanese Steel Knives”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://kamikoto.com/collections/store, https://kamikoto.com/pages/kamikoto-reviews, https://kamikoto.com/pages/about-kamikoto, https://kamikoto.com/pages/chef, https://kamikoto.com/pages/contact-us and https://kamikoto.com/pages/black-friday-sale have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://kamikoto.com/pages/steak-knives, https://kamikoto.com/pages/13-inch-yanagiba and https://kamikoto.com/pages/black-friday-sale have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 28 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=5946625&Ver=2&mid=ee1d043f-e3e6-4230-b045-4529c621ecac&bo=1&sid=ae90e9a0dd0211f1af9ee1e51c81c141&vid=ae911980dd0211f18f683102130bebce&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg=.

12 of 40 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

The homepage has only about 227 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo and 5 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.

Opening the homepage sets 26 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 40 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.