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Sundew

Sundew 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 60 for mobile speed and 88 for desktop speed, 85/85 for SEO and 93/93 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).

Mobile60
Sundew home page on mobile
Desktop88
Sundew home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed6088
SEO8585
Accessibility9393
Best practices100100

Single preset · measured 12 times since 2026-11-03 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Sundew home page

Mobile

Speed 60 · 40 points to gain

  • −25 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −8.1 Speed Index medium effort
  • −5.7 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −1.2 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • 2.3 s Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
  • 600 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort

SEO 85 · 15 points to gain

  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
  • −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort

Accessibility 93 · 7 points to gain

  • −4.9 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −2.1 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort

Desktop

Speed 88 · 12 points to gain

  • −10.3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −0.9 Speed Index medium effort
  • 330 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
  • 120 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort

SEO 85 · 15 points to gain

  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
  • −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort

Accessibility 93 · 7 points to gain

  • −4.9 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −2.1 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Sundew default demo ↗ 608593888593 2026-11-10
home ↗ 608593888593 2026-11-10

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Sundew: mobile speed 60 on Themestested
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