Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

squarespace.co.za

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Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

821 ms

Page Rendered

2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Squarespace.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

squarespace.co.za performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

squarespace.co.za

196 ms

www.squarespace.com

92 ms

gtm.js

220 ms

legacy.js

69 ms

modern.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Squarespace.co.za, 57% (27 requests) were made to Media-www.sqspcdn.com and 23% (11 requests) were made to Static1.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (272 ms) relates to the external source Media-www.sqspcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Squarespace.co.za main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 633.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 187.5 kB

  • Original 234.1 kB
  • After minification 221.0 kB
  • After compression 46.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 187.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 633.3 kB
  • After minification 633.3 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Squarespace images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 303 B

  • Original 292.0 kB
  • After minification 292.0 kB
  • After compression 291.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 149 B

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 40.7 kB
  • After compression 40.6 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Squarespace.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (39%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Squarespace. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

squarespace.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

squarespace.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

squarespace.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Squarespace.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Squarespace.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Squarespace. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: