squareup.com/us/en speed test — 20 Oct 2026

Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 13:24 UTC. Grade C (77/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.

https://squareup.com/us/en

20 October 2026 at 13:24 UTC · Free test · report pt_2d846a5b4fdb
Grade
C
77/100
Performance87/100
Structure62/100

10 audit(s) passed, 6 need work

First byte (TTFB)287 msmeasured from this server
Fully loaded1.57 sfirst byte + slowest asset
Requests26document + assets
Page weight2.10 MBcompressed transfer
HTML document276.3 KBgzip
ProtocolHTTP/3cloudflare
Third-party1.83 MBother hosts

Where the first byte went

  • DNS lookup 59 ms 21%
  • TCP connect 41 ms 14%
  • Server wait 187 ms 65%

Measured on the connection that fetched the HTML. Every other request on the page waits for the end of this bar before it can start.

How this page compares

First bytefaster than 77% of 4,999 pages tested here287 ms against a median of 449 ms
Page weightheavier than 82% of 4,999 pages tested here2.10 MB against a median of 650.3 KB
Fully loadedfaster than 66% of 4,999 pages tested here1.57 s against a median of 1.84 s
Requestssends more requests than 100% of 4,999 pages tested here26 against a median of 26

Every report published here is in this comparison, so it is a reference population of pages tested from one server - not a benchmark of the whole web.

What these numbers mean

  • The first byte arrived in 287 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
  • The page transfers 2.10 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 87% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
  • The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
  • It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
  • 87% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
  • The largest element painted at 700 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
  • The main thread was blocked for 1.25 s, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.

Fix first: Image delivery and format - Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.

Read on one shared server, not a visitor's phone: use it to compare pages against each other, not as a promise about every connection. We fix what these tests find.

Screenshot

What the page looks like

Loaded in headless Chromium on this server. Click an image to open it full size.

Mobile screenshot of squareup.com
Mobile 390 × 844 · 152.3 KB · page is 6000 px tall

Browser render

The same URL loaded in a real browser, so these are the readings curl cannot produce. The grade above is still built from the server measurements.

Largest contentful paint700 msgood is under 2.5 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000under 0.1 is stable
Total blocking time1.25 slong tasks during load
First contentful paint700 msfirst content on screen
Browser page weight13.50 MB465 request(s), scripts included
Failed requests3blocked or unreachable
Largest contentful paint700 ms
Goodgood under 2.5 s, poor over 4 s
Cumulative layout shift0.000
Goodgood under 0.1, poor over 0.25
Total blocking time1.25 s
Poorgood under 200 ms, poor over 600 ms

Page weight by type

What the page is made of

Images 25 requests
1.83 MB 87%

Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 2.10 MB across all of them.

Top issues

Image delivery and format

high impact

3 image(s) over 200 KB and 3 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.

Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.

Render-blocking resources

high impact

61 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (2 script(s), 59 stylesheet(s)). The page cannot paint until each one arrives.

Fix: Add defer or async to scripts that do not change the first paint, inline the critical CSS, and load the rest with media="print" plus an onload swap.

Total page weight

high impact

The page transfers 2.10 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 276.3 KB.

Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.

Third-party weight

medium impact

1 third-party host(s) serve 1.83 MB of this page. Each one is another DNS lookup, TLS handshake and point of failure you do not control.

Fix: Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.

HTML document size

medium impact

The document transfers 276.3 KB. A bloated document delays every other request, because nothing else can start until it is parsed.

Fix: Paginate long listings, move repeated markup into a template, and stop inlining large data URIs into the HTML.

Waterfall

Slowest requests

IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/6QHRYFu5oVT50muGAUqkOv/2f…
1.28 s
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/mXQTEBBxBIzbdqQt3twNY/81f…
1.02 s
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/595qX9xnXAg0w1fhGPHF5J/5b…
1.01 s
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/2gJQ4VoAVwozevJEstfWum/29…
1.01 s
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5pawOAMVB7Pn1mU1cb2T5A/e3…
999 ms
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/26QO9m2cShI7PywOah7qoj/9f…
985 ms
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5dVn6ns6DHKRTRJHrVnQ36/b1…
979 ms
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/6m5BZ16kSmXvb0qxvHzugu/2c…
978 ms
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/2np2URjbWK4g4MQtTz0iuO/cf…
977 ms
IMAGESimages.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/6JKl2TY6NgZ8pqPl8BwGs8/95…
973 ms

Each bar is one request's own response time, scaled to the slowest. Assets were fetched in parallel, so the bars overlap in real time rather than stacking. first party third party

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