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Palermo

Palermo is a Squarespace theme by Squarespace (Free). Tested on 2026-11-10 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 86 for mobile speed and 73 for desktop speed, 92/92 for SEO and 94/93 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).

Mobile86
Palermo home page on mobile
Desktop73
Palermo home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed8673
SEO9292
Accessibility9493
Best practices100100

Single preset · measured 14 times since 2026-09-14 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Palermo home page

Mobile

Speed 86 · 14 points to gain

  • −4.7 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −4.6 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −4.2 Speed Index medium 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 94 · 6 points to gain

  • −6 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort

Desktop

Speed 73 · 27 points to gain

  • −17 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
  • −7.8 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −1.3 Speed Index medium effort
  • −1.2 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • 330 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
  • 120 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort

SEO 92 · 8 points to gain

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

Accessibility 93 · 7 points to gain

  • −6.5 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Palermo default demo ↗ 869294739293 2026-11-10
home ↗ 869294739293 2026-11-10

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Palermo: mobile speed 86 on Themestested
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