Venue
Venue is a Shopify theme by Safe As Milk ($380). Tested on 2026-09-12 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 66 for mobile speed and 85 for desktop speed, 87/87 for SEO and 89/88 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). Those are medians across its 5 tested presets; mobile speed across every tested page ranges from 43 to 79. On its marketplace it is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 536 reviews.
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 66 | 85 |
| SEO | 87 | 87 |
| Accessibility | 89 | 88 |
| Best practices | 93 | 93 |
Median of 5 presets · measured 30 times since 2026-09-11 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — Sunset home page
Mobile
Speed 48 · 52 points to gain
- −25 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −13.8 Total Blocking Time medium effort
- −8.5 Speed Index medium effort
- −4.8 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- 150 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
SEO 92 · 8 points to gain
- −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 86 · 14 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
- −3 Links do not have a discernible name medium effort
- −3 Touch targets do not have sufficient size or spacing. 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
Desktop
Speed 91 · 9 points to gain
- −6.2 Speed Index medium effort
- −2.1 Total Blocking Time medium effort
- −1 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
SEO 92 · 8 points to gain
- −7.7 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 86 · 14 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
- −3 Links do not have a discernible name medium effort
- −3 Touch targets do not have sufficient size or spacing. 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 | ||||||
| Evening demo ↗ | 58 | 87 | 89 | 83 | 87 | 87 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 68 | 85 | 88 | 92 | 85 | 88 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 64 | 85 | 89 | 81 | 85 | 84 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 43 | 92 | 90 | 76 | 92 | 90 | 2026-09-12 |
| Venue demo ↗ | 70 | 87 | 90 | 85 | 87 | 90 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 65 | 85 | 88 | 92 | 85 | 88 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 79 | 85 | 92 | 87 | 85 | 92 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 67 | 92 | 90 | 77 | 92 | 90 | 2026-09-12 |
| Weekend demo ↗ | 66 | 87 | 90 | 85 | 87 | 90 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 65 | 85 | 88 | 92 | 85 | 88 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 66 | 85 | 91 | 86 | 85 | 91 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 66 | 92 | 90 | 77 | 92 | 90 | 2026-09-12 |
| Sunset default demo ↗ | 54 | 90 | 88 | 87 | 90 | 88 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 64 | 85 | 88 | 92 | 85 | 88 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 48 | 92 | 86 | 91 | 92 | 86 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 51 | 92 | 90 | 78 | 92 | 90 | 2026-09-12 |
| Morning demo ↗ | 67 | 87 | 89 | 88 | 87 | 87 | 2026-09-11 |
| category ↗ | 69 | 85 | 88 | 92 | 85 | 88 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 70 | 85 | 89 | 94 | 85 | 84 | 2026-09-11 |
| product ↗ | 62 | 92 | 90 | 77 | 92 | 90 | 2026-09-12 |
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