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Palmer

Palmer 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 42 for mobile speed and 98 for desktop speed, 92/92 for SEO and 91/93 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).

Mobile42
Palmer home page on mobile
Desktop98
Palmer home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed4298
SEO9292
Accessibility9193
Best practices100100

Single preset · measured 10 times since 2026-10-07 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Palmer home page

Mobile

Speed 42 · 58 points to gain

  • −25 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −16.5 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −9.2 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −7.2 Speed Index medium effort
  • 1.8 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

  • −6 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −2.6 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort

Desktop

Speed 98 · 2 points to gain

  • −0.9 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −0.8 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −0.5 Speed Index medium effort

SEO 92 · 8 points to gain

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

Accessibility 93 · 7 points to gain

  • −4.6 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −2 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Palmer default demo ↗ 429291989293 2026-10-28
home ↗ 429291989293 2026-10-28

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Palmer: mobile speed 42 on Themestested
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