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Carbon

ShopifyE-commerce Studio$2804.6★ 10 marketplace ↗live demo ↗

Carbon is a Shopify theme by E-commerce Studio ($280). Tested on 2026-09-12 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 84 for mobile speed and 97 for desktop speed, 92/92 for SEO and 92/88 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). Those are medians across its 2 tested presets; mobile speed across every tested page ranges from 75 to 90. On its marketplace it is rated 4.6 out of 5 from 10 reviews.

Mobile83
Carbon home page on mobile
Desktop98
Carbon home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed8497
SEO9292
Accessibility9288
Best practices9695

Median of 2 presets · measured 12 times since 2026-09-11 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Carbon home page

Mobile

Speed 83 · 17 points to gain

  • −14.5 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −1.6 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −1.1 Speed Index medium effort

SEO 92 · 8 points to gain

  • −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort

Accessibility 89 · 11 points to gain

  • −4.5 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
  • −3.1 Elements with `role="dialog"` or `role="alertdialog"` do not have accessible names. medium effort
  • −3.1 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. 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

Desktop

Speed 98 · 2 points to gain

  • −1 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −0.9 Speed Index medium effort

SEO 92 · 8 points to gain

  • −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort

Accessibility 87 · 13 points to gain

  • −4.5 Elements with an ARIA `[role]` that require children to contain a specific `[role]` are missing some or all of those required children. medium effort
  • −4.5 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
  • −3.1 Elements with `role="dialog"` or `role="alertdialog"` do not have accessible names. 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

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Carbon default demo ↗ 839292989288 2026-09-11
category 908592998588 2026-09-12
home 839289989287 2026-09-11
product 75100969810088 2026-09-12
Eternal demo ↗ 859291959287 2026-09-12
category 908592998588 2026-09-12
home 799285869285 2026-09-12
product 85100969910088 2026-09-12

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Carbon: mobile speed 84 on Themestested
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