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Carmine

Carmine is a Squarespace theme by Squarespace (Free). Tested on 2026-10-28 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 51 for mobile speed and 90 for desktop speed, 92/92 for SEO and 91/91 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).

Mobile51
Carmine home page on mobile
Desktop90
Carmine home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed5190
SEO9292
Accessibility9191
Best practices100100

Single preset · measured 10 times since 2026-10-14 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Carmine home page

Mobile

Speed 51 · 49 points to gain

  • −25 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −9.1 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −8.1 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −6.9 Speed Index medium effort
  • 2.7 s Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
  • 750 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort

SEO 92 · 8 points to gain

  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort

Accessibility 91 · 9 points to gain

  • −5.5 Form elements do not have associated labels medium effort
  • −3.9 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort

Desktop

Speed 90 · 10 points to gain

  • −6 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −1.7 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −1.5 Speed Index medium effort
  • 100 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort

SEO 92 · 8 points to gain

  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort

Accessibility 91 · 9 points to gain

  • −5.5 Form elements do not have associated labels medium effort
  • −3.9 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Carmine default demo ↗ 519291909291 2026-10-28
home ↗ 519291909291 2026-10-28

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Carmine: mobile speed 51 on Themestested
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