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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202639 issues · 82 checks

This review found 39 issues worth fixing on versoco.com, 10 of them high impact, across 82 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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 s2.2 sMay 9Sep 192.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.3 s
May 16, 20262.4 s
May 23, 20262.4 s
May 30, 20262.6 s
Jun 6, 20262.8 s
Jun 13, 20262.7 s
Jul 11, 20262.5 s
Jul 18, 20262.3 s
Sep 5, 20262.7 s
Sep 12, 20262.8 s
Sep 19, 20262.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
165 ms133 msMay 9Sep 19154 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026138 ms
May 16, 2026143 ms
May 23, 2026144 ms
May 30, 2026147 ms
Jun 6, 2026153 ms
Jun 13, 2026146 ms
Jul 11, 2026139 ms
Jul 18, 2026137 ms
Sep 5, 2026161 ms
Sep 12, 2026155 ms
Sep 19, 2026154 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 versoco.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. versoco.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  2. versoco.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  3. versoco.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  4. versoco.com at 3.2 s3.2 s
  5. versoco.com at 4.0 s4.0 s
  6. versoco.com at 4.7 s4.7 s
  7. versoco.com at 5.5 s5.5 s
  8. versoco.com at 6.3 s6.3 s

Speed

8 to fix48
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.6 s · 1.2 MB

    50 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.2 MB).

  • Mobile performance score: 48

    48/100

    Your mobile performance score is 48. 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, Cookiebot and Hubspot and others), adding 1.1 MB and 1.5 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    720 ms · 444 KiB

    About 444 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 720 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    1.1 MB

    5 images could be 1.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 962 ms

    962 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 962 ms of main-thread work and 801 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.

  • Main-thread work: 3.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 18 long tasks on the main thread

    18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 276 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 64 KiB

    About 64 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.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • 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: 40 ms

    40 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 40 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix100
  • 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: 8.9 s

    8.9 s

    Your largest element takes 8.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image. Most of its time is resource load delay (3.6 s).

  • Time to Interactive: 16.1 s

    16.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.2 s

    8.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 712 ms

    712 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 712 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 20% slower for real visitors

    +20%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 8 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 138 ms to 154 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    Real visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 114 ms

    114 ms

    Real visitors wait 114 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: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.089

    0.089

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.089, good is under 0.1).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

Images and page weight

3 to fix68
  • Page weight: 3.2 MB in 100 requests

    3.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.2 MB in 100 requests on a phone: images 1.9 MB (41), scripts 1.2 MB (28) and fonts 80 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    309 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example flute-news.png at 2,837 px wide, shown at 240 px. Resized copies would save about 309 KiB.

  • 2 images below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (355 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.92 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.92 g of CO₂e: 110.2 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.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 9192
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (13 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 13 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • The skip-link target should exist and be focusable (3 elements)

    The skip-link target should exist and be focusable: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

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

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Headings should not be empty (1 element)

    Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 27 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 34 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 40 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 34 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 8572
  • No H1 headline

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

  • Title is short (29 characters)

    Your title is only 29 characters: “Billerud – Packaging tomorrow”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://www.billerud.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • 3 links crawlers can't follow

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

  • 2 links with vague text

    2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 233 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 233 pages on versoco.com and 13 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 152 characters

    Your meta description is 152 characters: “We are a world leading company in high-performing paper and packaging materials – passionately committed to sustainabil…”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.billerud.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.

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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://www.billerud.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

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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 (1,123 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without an H1

    https://www.billerud.com/products/graphic-and-label-papers has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    https://www.billerud.com/products/packaging-materials/kraft-paper-medical took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 196 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 4 small tap targets

    4 of 14 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 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 ()”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix50
  • 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 social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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 489 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 489 words of visible text.

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  • 15 calls to action

    The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Contact Pulp” and “Subscribe & Contact”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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.

  • 16 cookies set on arrival

    16

    Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 24 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 24 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.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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