SEO report for squareup.com
https://squareup.com/us/en · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:09 GMT
Fix these first
- H1 headingcritical
No H1 heading.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- Entity clarityhigh
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
- Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 62 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to contact; missing about and privacy.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
- HTML sizemedium
977 kB of HTML – heavy for phones (we only analysed the first 1 MB).
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
Real-world speed Google PageSpeed
Loading Core Web Vitals from Google… this can take up to 30 seconds.
Authority & backlinks
Looking up which websites link to squareup.com…
Indexing & crawling 100%
Can search engines reach, read and index this page?
- ✓
Status codecritical
The page returned HTTP 200.
- ✓
Indexablecritical
No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.
- ✓
robots.txthigh
robots.txt found.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
- ✓
XML sitemaphigh
Sitemap found at https://squareup.com/us/en/sitemap.xml with 2,076 URLs.
Declared in robots.txt.
This page is listed in it.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-11-01T17:00:47.159Z.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://squareup.com/us/en
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
1 redirect before the page loaded.
https://square.site/ → https://squareup.com/us/en
A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
www.squareup.com redirects to squareup.com.
- ✓
hreflangmedium
11 hreflang link(s).
All language codes are valid.
No x-default (recommended for a language picker or fallback page).
Search snippet & sharing 100%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“Power your entire business | Square”
About 322px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
126 characters, ~788px of ~990px.
Good length.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
- ✓
Faviconlow
Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en-US"
Content quality 53%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
444 words of main content (menus and footer excluded).
Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.
- ✓
Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 77 (plain English), about 5 words per sentence.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
4 of 4 title keywords appear in the main content.
- ✗
H1 headingcritical
No H1 heading.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- !
Heading structuremedium
0 headings for 444 words.
Levels are in order.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✗
Text-to-code ratiolow
0% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.
AI search readiness 44%
Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?
- ✓
AI crawler accesshigh
Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.
- ✓
Snippet controlshigh
No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.
- ✓
llms.txtlow
/llms.txt found.
- ✗
Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- ✗
Entity clarityhigh
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- ✗
Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- ✗
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to contact; missing about and privacy.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
Structured data 0%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✗
JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
Links 88%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
165 internal and 3 external links.
- !
Anchor text qualitymedium
Same text used for different pages: “overview”, “switch to square”, “take payments”, “keep customers coming back”.
Fix: Make every link text describe its destination, e.g. “logo design prices” instead of “click here”.
- ✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.
Performance 42%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
568 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
- ✗
HTML sizemedium
977 kB of HTML – heavy for phones (we only analysed the first 1 MB).
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- i
Compressionmedium
Couldn't be measured from our server (our fetch decodes compressed pages before we see them). Check in your browser's developer tools that HTML is sent with br or gzip.
- ✗
Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 62 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- ✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
9 script tag(s); files loaded from 3 other domain(s): pw-renderer-production-c.squarecdn.com, images.ctfassets.net, pwt-production-c.squarecdn.com.
- ✗
Imagesmedium
10 image(s).
10 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
The first image is lazy-loaded – if it's the main (LCP) image, that delays it. Don't lazy-load images visible on arrival.
0 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- !
Cachinglow
Cache-Control: max-age=0, public, must-revalidate
Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.
- i
HTTP/3low
Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.
Security 96%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✓
HSTSmedium
HSTS: max-age=631152000; includeSubDomains; preload
- !
Security headerslow
Present: nosniff, Referrer-Policy, clickjacking protection.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 67%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no, viewport-fit=cover
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 10 images have alt text.
- ✗
Form labelsmedium
1 of 1 form field(s) have no label.
Fix: Give every form field a <label> or aria-label (a placeholder isn't a label).
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✗
Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
Local SEO not scored
This site doesn't look like a local business, so these checks are shown for information and not scored.
- i
LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
- i
Contact details on pagemedium
No phone number found.
No postcode found (fine for service-area businesses).
- i
Map & directionslow
No map or directions link.