Venice
Venice is a Shopify theme by Store Wave ($100). Tested on 2026-09-13 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 66 for mobile speed and 91 for desktop speed, 87/87 for SEO and 87/90 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). Those are medians across its 2 tested presets; mobile speed across every tested page ranges from 59 to 71. On its marketplace it is rated 3.3 out of 5 from 6 reviews.
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 66 | 91 |
| SEO | 87 | 87 |
| Accessibility | 87 | 90 |
| Best practices | 93 | 96 |
Median of 2 presets · measured 12 times since 2026-09-11 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — Venice home page
Mobile
Speed 66 · 34 points to gain
- −24.3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −7.4 Speed Index medium effort
- −2.5 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- 300 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
SEO 85 · 15 points to gain
- −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 87 · 13 points to gain
- −5 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
- −3.5 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −3.5 Touch targets do not have sufficient size or spacing. medium effort
- −1.5 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
Desktop
Speed 87 · 13 points to gain
- −6.7 Speed Index medium effort
- −6.3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
SEO 85 · 15 points to gain
- −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 90 · 10 points to gain
- −5 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
- −3.5 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −1.5 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 / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Arcane demo ↗ | 64 | 87 | 86 | 92 | 87 | 89 | 2026-09-12 |
| category ↗ | 59 | 85 | 90 | 93 | 85 | 94 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 69 | 85 | 82 | 89 | 85 | 86 | 2026-09-13 |
| product ↗ | 65 | 92 | 85 | 93 | 92 | 88 | 2026-09-12 |
| Venice default demo ↗ | 68 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 87 | 91 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 71 | 85 | 90 | 92 | 85 | 94 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 66 | 85 | 87 | 87 | 85 | 90 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 66 | 92 | 85 | 92 | 92 | 88 | 2026-09-12 |
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