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Hotel Chocolat — website check

British chocolatier, founded 1988, based in Royston. Hotel Chocolat’s website (www.hotelchocolat.com) runs on Salesforce Commerce Cloud. It is delivered through Cloudflare. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.

Logo: Unknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
79
Brand Web Indexout of 100

Share of 26 technical checks the site passes: security, speed, email and SEO. A measurement of the website — not a popularity ranking.

89
Security
80
Speed & delivery
75
Email & domain
73
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 22 Oct 2026

About the brand

Founded1988
CountryUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersRoyston
IndustryFood industry
Official websitewww.hotelchocolat.com

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

UK footprint

137
listed locations
50
regions
102
towns & cities

Listed as “Hotel Chocolat”.

Store counts compiled from public map listings, October 2026. Listings are grouped by the name they carry; a company’s own store count can differ.

Built with

E-commerce platformsSalesforce Commerce Cloud
Cookie consent (CMP)OneTrust
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
Web frameworksReact
CSS frameworksTailwind CSS

Hosting & delivery

Servercloudflare
Network (AS)Amazon Web Services
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.2
CertificateDigiCert Inc · valid until 2027-02-23
First response1,445 ms
Homepage weight532 KB
IPv6no

Email & domain

Mail providerProofpoint
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=reject
BIMIyes
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesApple (domain verification), Google Search Console, Microsoft 365

SEO & social

Title62 characters
Meta description169 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataItemList, ListItem, Organization, SearchAction, WebSite
Language versions1
Open Graphno
Social profiles linkedFacebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tiktok

AI crawlers & robots

AI crawlers blockednone
llms.txtno
ads.txtno
security.txtno

Checklist

Security

  • HTTPS by default
  • HSTS header
  • TLS 1.3
  • Content-Security-Policy
  • X-Content-Type-Options
  • Referrer-Policy

Speed & delivery

  • HTTP/3
  • IPv6
  • First response under 1.5 s
  • Homepage under 1.5 MB

Email & domain

  • SPF record
  • DMARC record
  • DMARC enforced (quarantine / reject)
  • BIMI logo record
  • DNSSEC
  • CAA record

SEO & markup

  • Title tag 10–70 characters
  • Meta description
  • Canonical link
  • Exactly one H1
  • Structured data (JSON-LD)
  • Open Graph title and image
  • All images have alt text
  • XML sitemap
  • robots.txt
  • security.txt

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Data from our own crawler: homepage, DNS, TLS and robots.txt of each brand’s official website. coolbrands.uk.com is an independent catalogue. It is not affiliated with Superbrands (UK) Ltd or the CoolBrands® awards programme, and does not publish their results.

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