Color Newspaper
Color Newspaper is a WordPress theme by Mystery Themes (Free). Tested on 2026-09-13 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 69 for mobile speed and 96 for desktop speed, 40/40 for SEO and 92/95 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).
Mobile69
Desktop96
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 69 | 96 |
| SEO | 40 | 40 |
| Accessibility | 92 | 95 |
| Best practices | 100 | 100 |
Single preset · measured 2 times since 2026-09-13 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — Color Newspaper home page
Mobile
Speed 69 · 31 points to gain
- −11.8 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
- −10.3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −7 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −2.2 Speed Index medium effort
- 200 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
SEO 40 · 60 points to gain
- −40.3 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −10 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −10 Links are not crawlable medium effort
Accessibility 92 · 8 points to gain
- −8.2 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
Desktop
Speed 96 · 4 points to gain
- −2.5 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
- −1.1 Speed Index medium effort
SEO 40 · 60 points to gain
- −40.3 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −10 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −10 Links are not crawlable medium effort
Accessibility 95 · 5 points to gain
- −4.9 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Color Newspaper default demo ↗ | 69 | 40 | 92 | 96 | 40 | 95 | 2026-09-13 |
| home ↗ | 69 | 40 | 92 | 96 | 40 | 95 | 2026-09-13 |
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