ericom.com website review

About 938 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.3 s faster on a phone.

21 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.9 s.

16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (181 KiB).

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Optanon and buzzfufighter.com and others), adding 1.3 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 50 (desktop: 48). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 813 ms of main-thread work and 891 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 41 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

About 57 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 290 ms faster on a phone.

15 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 227 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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.

1 image could be 4 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Your largest element takes 15.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Ericom’s Innovative, Isolation-Based Solutions”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 15.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 616 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.49 g of CO₂e: 58.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Prevent Zero-Day Cyberattacks”, “Secure Web and Email Access” and “Application Access for Unmanaged Devices”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

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

The homepage links to 94 pages on ericom.com and 9 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing 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.

There is no /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.

/ and /platform-overview all use the title “Ericom Cloud Security Platform - Ericom Software”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

/web-isolation-for-film-industry, /resources, /news, /mssps-and-ztedge and /value-added-resellers have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 30 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

On a 390 px-wide phone the page scrolls sideways, a sign that something is wider than the screen.

8 of 27 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to script at 'https://trk.techtarget.com/tracking.js' from origin 'https://www.ericom.com' has been blocked by C…”.

1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://twitter.com/Ericom_Software (404).

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://cradlepoint.com/about-us/careers/.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

ericom.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.

ericom.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.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 408 words of visible text.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 15 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 26 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.