How I Reduced Load Time by 25% on Squarespace and Why I Couldn’t Get More

Jared Nutt
codeburst
Published in
4 min readDec 12, 2019

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Front Matter

Recently, I got a job that required me to debug a Squarespace site to see why it was loading so slow. I figured I’d share what I did to increase the load speed.

Tools

I used Google’s built-in tool “Lighthouse”. If you don’t know where that is, you can find it in…

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Freelance web developer living in Los Angeles. I write articles I wish I had when I was learning — mostly about Javascript and web development.