Avenue
Avenue is a Shopify theme by Red Plug Design Co. ($320). Tested on 2026-09-12 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 77 for mobile speed and 96 for desktop speed, 87/87 for SEO and 92/92 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). Those are medians across its 3 tested presets; mobile speed across every tested page ranges from 59 to 82. On its marketplace it is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 257 reviews.
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 77 | 96 |
| SEO | 87 | 87 |
| Accessibility | 92 | 92 |
| Best practices | 93 | 95 |
Median of 3 presets · measured 14 times since 2026-09-11 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — Avenue home page
Mobile
Speed 82 · 18 points to gain
- −14.5 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −2.1 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −1.5 Speed Index medium effort
- 300 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
SEO 85 · 15 points to gain
- −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
- −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 92 · 8 points to gain
- −4.2 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
- −3 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −1.3 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
Best practices 96 · 4 points to gain
- −3.8 Browser errors were logged to the console medium effort
Desktop
Speed 97 · 3 points to gain
- −2.1 Speed Index medium effort
- −1 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
SEO 85 · 15 points to gain
- −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
- −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 92 · 8 points to gain
- −4.2 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
- −3 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −1.3 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
Best practices 92 · 8 points to gain
- −3.8 Browser errors were logged to the console medium effort
- −3.8 Issues were logged in the `Issues` panel in Chrome Devtools high effort
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Avenue default demo ↗ | 82 | 85 | 92 | 97 | 85 | 92 | 2026-09-11 |
| home ↗ | 82 | 85 | 92 | 97 | 85 | 92 | 2026-09-11 |
| Pike demo ↗ | 67 | 87 | 92 | 88 | 87 | 91 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 76 | 85 | 92 | 98 | 85 | 89 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 66 | 85 | 92 | 70 | 85 | 92 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 59 | 92 | 93 | 96 | 92 | 93 | 2026-09-12 |
| Trail demo ↗ | 77 | 90 | 93 | 96 | 90 | 92 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 76 | 85 | 92 | 95 | 85 | 89 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 78 | 92 | 95 | 97 | 92 | 95 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 77 | 92 | 93 | 96 | 92 | 93 | 2026-09-12 |
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