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Cedar

Cedar 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 46 for mobile speed and 73 for desktop speed, 92/92 for SEO and 95/95 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).

Mobile46
Cedar home page on mobile
Desktop73
Cedar home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed4673
SEO9292
Accessibility9595
Best practices100100

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

Why not 100 — Cedar home page

Mobile

Speed 46 · 54 points to gain

  • −25 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −11.1 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −9.3 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −8.2 Speed Index medium effort
  • 2.9 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 95 · 5 points to gain

  • −3.8 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −1.6 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort

Desktop

Speed 73 · 27 points to gain

  • −12.3 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −11 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
  • −3.3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −0.5 Speed Index medium effort
  • 160 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
  • 120 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort

SEO 92 · 8 points to gain

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

Accessibility 95 · 5 points to gain

  • −3.8 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −1.6 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Cedar default demo ↗ 469295739295 2026-10-28
home ↗ 469295739295 2026-10-28

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