Stian

The issue you're addressing is well known when it comes to Squarespace, sadly. From what I've come to realize is that it's about how the code of SS is written, which is really messy. When I contact the customer service they only come up with useless excuses and tell me to rank in GT Metrix or Pingdom instead. The site speed and performance of SS sites is really bad, and I really don't like that the SS team doesn't even mention this anywhere, nor do they reply to forum posts. It's amazing that this is a public listed company, and the communication and action from the devs is non-existent. The only solution for me is to migrate to another CMS platform, which I will do once my rankings drop.

Site URL: https://www.anbefaler.com Since around October 2021, all of my new pages takes ages (3-5 months) to index in Google. I've tested this for three of my websites, both new and older sites. Likewise I've tested indexing a website and new pages on WordPress which only take 1-2 weeks. So this tells me there is something wrong with my setup on Squarespace, or there is something wrong with SS. Anyone else experience the same issue? - I've tested this on both 7.0 and 7.1.

Site URL: https://www.anbefaler.com I see that the website title / logo is coded as an H1 - header, which means that all of my individual pages have two (2) H1 headers (website title + individual page titles), which is bad for SEO. Every page should have an H1 in the beginning. So, does this mean that I should change the individual page headers to H2, to avoid having two H1 headers ? Or will this be bad as the page itself doesn't actually have an H1 to begin with? Any ideas?

I'm in the process of migrating my website from Squarespace. I've had enough with the cold shoulder from the SS team. They suck at communicating with their customers, nor do they inform us about what they are working on to improve their platform. All they communicate is useless bullshit for circle members. Squarespace is not a long-term choice for me.

As you can see from the Google Search Console for my website the past weeks, everything suddenly dropped, as well as I received messages from Google that all of my domains needed improvement due to CLS issues. Earlier this week I contacted Squarespace support and requested that they could provide me with an answer as to why even blank SS pages received CLS issues and poor rankings. The interesting thing is that only SS say that Google Pagespeed Insights are not optimized for the Squarespace CMS. But the fact is that the code of SS is messy and large compared to other CMS systems. And I argued that Google use their Search Console to penalize our websites, as they don't care that it's a CMS platform. So after several e-mail after I raged a bit about them sending my standard responses answering questions I never even asked, as well as them never actually answering my actual questions. They told me eventually after some supervisor answered me, that they would file a ticket to the developers (I don't know if they actually did it). BUT...now, some days later, my website is ranking better when it comes to the CLS issues, and my reports in Search Console are getting better. In this time I tried to disable Anchor ads, and remove ads from the top of my page without any change is the PageSpeed Insights. On the 23rd I activated the anchor ads again, and all of a sudden everything is looking to come back - Fingers Crossed!!