SquareSpace Mobile Speed "poor"

[benjam...@gmail.com]

I use my site primarily for lead generation with adwords, so I have tried to optimize content and configuration to support that end. We are getting destroyed on mobile speed (most of our traffic is mobile) and SquareSpace's response is that Google's tool is wrong and that I should look at an HTML 5 tool for performance insights. I self administer and am not technical, which is why I was drawn to squarespace in the first place. Does anyone have experience correcting this? If not, are there providers that align more directly with Google's best practices?

Here is one of the store landing pages (we drive leads to each location).

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.massagegreenspas.com%2Farizona-glendale

[Tyler Mattas]

I'd love to know the answer to this as well. I couldn't understand why my page is so difficult to find on Google... now I know. I have horrible mobile rating (which Google factors in significantly) and ok desktop rating. Squarespace's answer is obviously false, as this issue is clearly affecting search ranking.

[Jan Henriksen]

Hi Benjamin.

The answer to this is splitt in two.

I manage squarespace site who score poor on mobile but loads in less then 1 second. So this is more about how squarespace has setup its script and css loading. 

As an example if I would use the developer account I would defer the two squarespace script til onload. But the common script wich is one of the two squarespace scripts is the script handeling image resizeing and placeing.

The sitebundle script already loads in the last section of html,

The thing here is cause of squarespace placement of css and scripts those who use a template that is not custom built will get this error. However it will not be critical for your site. 

Google does not take this into account when they rank your site. True pagespeed is a factor but it is based on actual numbers, not this test.

This test is simply to help people make their site faster. 

And as you say squarespace says that you should not mind this test. But that they do not adress it in a better form is bad for them.