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exploristics.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202636 issues · 103 checks
This review found 36 issues worth fixing on exploristics.com, 16 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
71CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 5.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 5.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 5.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 5.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 5.4 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 5.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 5.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 5.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 6.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 5.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 5.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 5.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 5.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 5.8 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 5.7 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 5.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 5.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 5.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 5.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 5.9 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 6.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 151 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 143 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 145 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 151 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 152 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 161 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 203 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 181 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 202 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 211 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 185 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.6 s
1.1 s
1.7 s
2.3 s
2.8 s
3.4 s
4.0 s
4.5 s
exploristics.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
3.5 s13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.5 s.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.4 s · 1.4 MB37 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.4 MB).
Improve image delivery
1.1 s · 544 KiB6 images could be 544 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 38
38/100Your mobile performance score is 38 (desktop: 58). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Reduce unused JavaScript
750 ms · 489 KiBAbout 489 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and LinkedIn Ads and others), adding 1.1 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.
Minify JavaScript
600 ms · 130 KiB130 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Google Tag Manager adds 599 ms
599 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 599 ms of main-thread work and 508 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.
Hubspot adds 407 ms
407 msHubspot costs a phone 407 ms of main-thread work and 542 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 39 KiBAbout 39 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Main-thread work: 3.3 s
A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
12 long tasks on the main thread
12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 260 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
13 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify CSS
8 KiB8 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 4 ms
4 msYour server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
Real-user LCP: 5.9 s
5.9 sReal visitors wait 5.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 4.7 s
4.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 4.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 2.6 s
2.6 sReal visitors wait 2.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.6 s
7.6 sYour largest element takes 7.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “ACQUISITION Exploristics is now part of MMS Bringing new de…”.
Time to Interactive: 14.8 s
14.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 14.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 9.0 s
9.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 4.4 s
4.4 sThe first text or image appears after 4.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 869 ms
869 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 869 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user INP: 203 ms
203 msReal visitors wait 203 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 24% slower for real visitors
+24%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 151 ms to 185 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 15% slower for real visitors
+15%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.3 s to 6.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
2 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.06
0.06For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.06 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.072
0.072The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.072, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.5 MB in 79 requests
3.5 MBYour homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 79 requests on a phone: images 2.0 MB (22), scripts 1.4 MB (23) and stylesheets 65 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
0.99 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.99 g of CO₂e: 118.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
9 text elements with low contrast
9 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
48 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (78 characters)
Your title is 78 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “MMS Acquires Exploristics | Advanced Clinical Trial Simulation & Biostatistics”.
87 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 87 pages on exploristics.com and 4 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 158 characters
Your meta description is 158 characters: “MMS has acquired Exploristics and its KerusCloud platform, expanding global biostatistics and clinical trial simulation…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Exploristics is now part of MMS”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://mmsholdings.com/exploristics/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList.
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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://mmsholdings.com/sitemap_index.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.
3 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (835 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (147 KiB, 323 links, though it should open with a “# Title” line), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page slow to respond
/solutions/safety-risk-management took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 66 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
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.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
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
11 small tap targets
11 of 14 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No X-Content-Type-Options
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block, 1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
8 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (mmsholdings.com).
Valid certificate (33 days left)
The certificate from GoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 verifies for exploristics.com and is valid for another 33 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.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://exploristics.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 43 links work
All 43 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 3 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
mmsholdings.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
mmsholdings.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 20 years old
20 yearsmmsholdings.com was registered in May 2006 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until May 2029
mmsholdings.com is registered until May 2029.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 651 words of copy
The homepage carries about 651 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Register Now” and “Contact Us”.
15 calls to action
The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Learn More” and “Get in Touch”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage.
Email authentication
No DMARC policy
exploristics.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.
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: 40/100
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.
1 checks passed
SPF with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
9 cookies set on arrival
9Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
32 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 32 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
- It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.3.
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 3.7.1
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Company
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Belfast
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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