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Sawyer

Sawyer 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 53 for mobile speed and 64 for desktop speed, 92/92 for SEO and 95/95 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).

Mobile53
Sawyer home page on mobile
Desktop64
Sawyer home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed5364
SEO9292
Accessibility9595
Best practices9696

Single preset · measured 8 times since 2026-10-14 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Sawyer home page

Mobile

Speed 53 · 47 points to gain

  • −25 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −10 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −9.8 Speed Index medium effort
  • −2.7 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • 6.0 s Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
  • 1.2 s 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

  • −3.7 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

Best practices 96 · 4 points to gain

  • −3.8 Browser errors were logged to the console medium effort

Desktop

Speed 64 · 36 points to gain

  • −20.3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −9.1 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −6.7 Speed Index medium effort
  • 910 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
  • 170 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

  • −3.7 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

Best practices 96 · 4 points to gain

  • −3.8 Browser errors were logged to the console medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Sawyer default demo ↗ 539295649295 2026-10-28
home ↗ 539295649295 2026-10-28

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Sawyer: mobile speed 53 on Themestested
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