Polaris Home
Polaris Home is a BigCommerce theme by epicShops ($300). Tested on 2026-09-12 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 64 for mobile speed and 90 for desktop speed, 77/77 for SEO and 93/90 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).
Mobile58
Desktop89
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 64 | 90 |
| SEO | 77 | 77 |
| Accessibility | 93 | 90 |
| Best practices | 100 | 100 |
Single preset · measured 4 times since 2026-09-12 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — Polaris-Home home page
Mobile
Speed 58 · 42 points to gain
- −24.8 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −9.5 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −4.8 Speed Index medium effort
- −2.5 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
- −0.6 Total Blocking Time medium effort
- 500 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
- 300 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
SEO 77 · 23 points to gain
- −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
- −7.7 Links are not crawlable medium effort
Accessibility 95 · 5 points to gain
- −3.2 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −1.4 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
Desktop
Speed 89 · 11 points to gain
- −8 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −2.5 Speed Index medium effort
- 120 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
SEO 77 · 23 points to gain
- −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
- −7.7 Links are not crawlable medium effort
Accessibility 92 · 8 points to gain
- −3.2 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −3.2 Links do not have a discernible name medium effort
- −1.4 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Polaris-Home default demo ↗ | 64 | 77 | 93 | 90 | 77 | 90 | 2026-09-12 |
| category ↗ | 69 | 77 | 91 | 90 | 77 | 87 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 58 | 77 | 95 | 89 | 77 | 92 | 2026-09-12 |
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