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esi.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202624 issues · 69 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on esi.com, 8 of them high impact, across 69 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 8.7 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 10.3 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 11.7 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 12.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 11.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 10.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 7.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 6.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 206 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 195 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 110 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 168 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 111 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
Speed
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Real-user LCP: 6.5 s
6.5 sReal visitors wait 6.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 5.2 s
5.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 5.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 3.8 s
3.8 sReal visitors wait 3.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.25
0.25For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.25 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.1 s to 6.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
1 checks passed
Tap response (INP) got 40% faster for real visitors
-40%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 206 ms to 111 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.4 MB
2.4 MBYour homepage downloads 2.4 MB on a phone. Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.69 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.69 g of CO₂e: 82.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (1 element)
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
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.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h1 → h3 and h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 14 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
41 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 3 failed. 1 more 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.
6 H1 headlines
There are 6 <h1> headlines (“MKS to sell Ophir® Optics Business”, “The Next Generation has arrived” and “Better. Faster. Consistent.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
188 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 188 pages on esi.com and 5 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 126 characters
Your meta description is 126 characters: “ESI delivers market-leading solutions for Flexible PCB laser processing, HDI PCB laser processing and high-speed MLCC t…”.
Title: 35 characters
Your title is a healthy 35 characters: “ESI - Electro Scientific Industries”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.esi.com/.
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://api.p1.mks.com/occ/v2/esi/sitemap/sitemapindex.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.
1 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.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
/f/allegro-xp-mlcc-testing-system and /f/mlcc-machine-tooling all use the title “MKS Inc.”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
5 pages without a meta description
/f/capstone-laser-system, /f/geode-g2-laser-via-drilling-system, /f/allegro-xp-mlcc-testing-system, /f/mlcc-machine-tooling and /f/replacement-carrier-plates have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages without an H1
/f/allegro-xp-mlcc-testing-system and /f/mlcc-machine-tooling have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
4 pages slow to respond
/f/geode-g2-laser-via-drilling-system, /s/mlcc-testing, /f/allegro-xp-mlcc-testing-system and /f/mlcc-machine-tooling took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 36 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
7 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
10 broken images
10 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://api.p1.mks.com/medias/sys_master/logos/logos/hf0/hd4/9850584498206/logo-mks-esi-wht.png.
6 small tap targets
6 of 24 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 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 ()”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 182 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (esi.com).
Valid certificate (55 days left)
The certificate from DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 verifies for esi.com and is valid for another 55 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/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 42 links work
All 42 links checked from your homepage (37 internal, 5 external) answered without errors; 25 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
esi.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
esi.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 28 years old
28 yearsesi.com was registered in Jul 1998 through Key-Systems GmbH. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jul 2027
esi.com is registered until Jul 2027.
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 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.
Only about 104 words
The homepage has only about 104 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
2 checks passed
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Learn More” and “Contact Us”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Email authentication
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: 75/100
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.
2 checks passed
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf-00369f01.pphosted.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ip4:198.102.182.42 mx mx:pdxms02.esi.com ~a…”.
Privacy and tracking
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (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.
1 other company contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Hosting
- Meteverse Limited.
Company
- Founded
- 1944
- Headquarters
- Portland
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