Understanding Your Audit Score (And What to Fix First)

Published July 28, 2026

Your audit result is three separate 0–100 scores — performance, SEO, and CSS health — not one average. Fix the lowest score first; it is almost always the section dragging the others down.

Performance

Measures how fast your pages load and become usable: image weight, blocking scripts and stylesheets, and font delivery. Squarespace sites most commonly lose points on oversized hero images and third-party scripts.

SEO

Checks the fundamentals search engines rely on: unique titles and meta descriptions, a single H1 per page, working canonicals, and valid structured data.

CSS Health

Flags custom CSS that stopped matching after Squarespace platform updates — dead selectors, specificity fights, and heavy !important chains. These rules add weight and break silently.

Typical Fix Order

  1. Compress or replace oversized images.
  2. Remove third-party scripts you no longer use.
  3. Repair the dead CSS selectors flagged in your report.
  4. Re-run the audit to confirm the score moved.