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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202635 issues · 101 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on hscpoly.com, 12 of them high impact, across 101 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
2.6 s2.0 sMay 9Oct 242.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.1 s
May 16, 20262.1 s
May 23, 20262.1 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.1 s
Jun 13, 20262.1 s
Jun 20, 20262.3 s
Jun 27, 20262.4 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.4 s
Jul 18, 20262.5 s
Jul 25, 20262.4 s
Aug 1, 20262.3 s
Aug 8, 20262.3 s
Aug 15, 20262.3 s
Aug 22, 20262.3 s
Aug 29, 20262.4 s
Sep 5, 20262.3 s
Sep 12, 20262.2 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.5 s
Oct 10, 20262.5 s
Oct 17, 20262.4 s
Oct 24, 20262.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
115 ms81 msMay 9Oct 2496 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 202687 ms
May 16, 202685 ms
May 23, 202693 ms
May 30, 202696 ms
Jun 6, 202695 ms
Jun 13, 2026105 ms
Jun 20, 2026108 ms
Jun 27, 2026106 ms
Jul 4, 2026111 ms
Jul 11, 2026101 ms
Jul 18, 2026100 ms
Jul 25, 2026104 ms
Aug 1, 2026101 ms
Aug 8, 2026105 ms
Aug 15, 2026105 ms
Aug 22, 2026105 ms
Aug 29, 2026108 ms
Sep 5, 202697 ms
Sep 12, 202696 ms
Sep 19, 2026100 ms
Sep 26, 202696 ms
Oct 3, 2026103 ms
Oct 10, 202696 ms
Oct 17, 202696 ms
Oct 24, 202696 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 hscpoly.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. hscpoly.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. hscpoly.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. hscpoly.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. hscpoly.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. hscpoly.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. hscpoly.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. hscpoly.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. hscpoly.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

hscpoly.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

8 to fix50
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    5.8 s · 655 KiB

    About 655 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.8 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    950 ms · 204 KiB

    36 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (204 KiB).

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google Tag Manager and Cookie-Script.com and others), adding 2.2 MB and 924 ms of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 50

    50/100

    Your mobile performance score is 50. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    650 ms · 101 KiB

    2 images could be 101 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 650 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

    15 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

  • YouTube adds 534 ms

    534 ms

    YouTube costs a phone 534 ms of main-thread work and 1.7 MB 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.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 294 ms

    294 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 294 ms of main-thread work and 342 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.

  • 9 long tasks on the main thread

    9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 213 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    64 KiB

    About 64 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Legacy JavaScript

    17 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 17 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 2.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.0 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 14 ms

    14 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 14 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.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    Real visitors wait 1.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 11.8 s

    11.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 11.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 17.4 s

    17.4 s

    Your largest element takes 17.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “WE CREATE THE WORLD’S PUREST HUMAN-MADE SUBSTANCE: POLYSILI…”.

  • Speed Index: 11.8 s

    11.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 17.7 s

    17.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 17.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 268 ms

    268 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 268 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 12% slower for real visitors

    +12%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 96 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 16% slower for real visitors

    +16%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.5 s

    2.5 s

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

  • Real-user INP: 104 ms

    104 ms

    Real visitors wait 104 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.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.7 MB in 67 requests

    2.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.7 MB in 67 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (29), images 324 KiB (9) and HTML 174 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (99 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.75 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.75 g of CO₂e: 90.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9394
  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (4 elements)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 8581
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • Title is short (28 characters)

    Your title is only 28 characters: “Home - Hemlock Semiconductor”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • 77 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 77 pages on hscpoly.com and 13 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “We create the world’s purest human-made substance: polysilicon.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.hscpoly.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://www.hscpoly.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    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.

  • No llms.txt

    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.

2 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 (451 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 10 pages without a meta description

    /markets-technologies/solar, /markets-technologies/electronics, /markets-technologies/technologies, /sustainability/sustainability-report, /sustainability/community-alert-preparedness and /about/executive-leadership/arabinda-ab-ghosh and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 39 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 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.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 7791
  • 7 small tap targets

    7 of 12 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 5 third-party cookies

    5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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

1 to fix94
  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • 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.

  • No security.txt

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

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (hscpoly.com).

  • Valid certificate (76 days left)

    The certificate from Starfield Technologies · Starfield TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 verifies for hscpoly.com and is valid for another 76 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:// redirects to https

    http://hscpoly.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 48 links work

    All 48 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 8 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    hscpoly.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

    hscpoly.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.

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  • Domain is 28 years old

    28 years

    hscpoly.com was registered in Aug 1998 through Squarespace Domains II LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Aug 2027

    hscpoly.com is registered until Aug 2027.

Content and conversion

5 to fix56
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • No direct contact details

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

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • 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 371 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 371 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “See Job Openings & Apply” and “Contact Us”.

  • 1 short form

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Email authentication

90
  • Email authentication score: 90/100

    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.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • 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 ip4:50.124.24.166 a:modsurv3.modernsurvey.com ip4:135.84.74.4 ip4:135.84.74.3…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 14 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.4.
  • 2 plugins are behind their latest release.accessibility-checker 1.50.1 → 1.51.1 · gallery-block-lightbox 1.12.0 → 1.16.1

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Sucuri

Company

Employees
1,726

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