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I'm looking for someone to help me troubleshoot my very slow website, especially on mobile.
After a redesign last year, the site speed ratings crashed.
My SEO person and I have been trying to troubleshoot, using Squarespace guidance and other resources. (So, yes, we've read and reread the help articles.) We have spent a ton of time reducing images and page sizes, which hasn't made a dent.
I'm on Version 7.0– Brine family (Walking Rovers template). Ajax loading is NOT enabled, so that's an option, but squarespace help says it can mess with CSS. When we asked SQUARESPACE helpdesk if we could just disable AJAX if it ends up causing issues, we didn't get a clear answer. A slow site is better than a broken site.
So I guess my question is twofold:
1) How easy is it to just revert to the original site if AJAX screws up the CSS and breaks the site?
2) If we shared the speed test results, would someone be able to tell us what is CSS vs standard squarespace code that's causing the issues?
I'll add that there seems to be a lot in the CSS about fonts, which I don't quite understand because (I thought) we're using Squarespace-delivered fonts. And I've seen other people comment that using google or typekit fonts works fine on non-squarespace sites.
Any help or insight you can provide is very much appreciated.
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Caroline2022
Site URL: https://carolineadamscoaching.com
Hi! If this is not an appropriate use of this forum, please tell me...
I'm looking for someone to help me troubleshoot my very slow website, especially on mobile.
After a redesign last year, the site speed ratings crashed.
My SEO person and I have been trying to troubleshoot, using Squarespace guidance and other resources. (So, yes, we've read and reread the help articles.) We have spent a ton of time reducing images and page sizes, which hasn't made a dent.
We think the issue is with the CSS. Although I do wonder if the main issue is with squarespace itself as corroborated by this post: https://forum.squarespace.com/topic/200667-site-speed-and-its-not-the-images/#comment-482416
I'm on Version 7.0– Brine family (Walking Rovers template). Ajax loading is NOT enabled, so that's an option, but squarespace help says it can mess with CSS. When we asked SQUARESPACE helpdesk if we could just disable AJAX if it ends up causing issues, we didn't get a clear answer. A slow site is better than a broken site.
So I guess my question is twofold:
1) How easy is it to just revert to the original site if AJAX screws up the CSS and breaks the site?
2) If we shared the speed test results, would someone be able to tell us what is CSS vs standard squarespace code that's causing the issues?
I'll add that there seems to be a lot in the CSS about fonts, which I don't quite understand because (I thought) we're using Squarespace-delivered fonts. And I've seen other people comment that using google or typekit fonts works fine on non-squarespace sites.
Any help or insight you can provide is very much appreciated.
caroline
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Site URL: https://carolineadamscoaching.com Hi! If this is not an appropriate use of this forum, please tell me... I'm looking for someone to help me troubleshoot my very slow website, especial
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@Caroline2022 Running a Google Lighthouse test on your site, looks like your images are the largest assets being loaded, followed by some JS files. A quick win would be to compress your images
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1. Ajax Page Loading can be enabled and disabled using the toggle in Site Styles. The change is immediate. There are no long term effects. Note that CSS added to the Custom CSS panel is not affected b
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