Digital Newspaper
Digital Newspaper is a WordPress theme by blazethemes (Free). Tested on 2026-09-12 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 75 for mobile speed and 99 for desktop speed, 30/30 for SEO and 81/77 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). On its marketplace it is rated 4.6 out of 5 from 24 reviews.
Mobile75
Desktop99
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 75 | 99 |
| SEO | 30 | 30 |
| Accessibility | 81 | 77 |
| Best practices | 100 | 100 |
Single preset · measured 2 times since 2026-09-12 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — Digital Newspaper home page
Mobile
Speed 75 · 25 points to gain
- −14 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −7.5 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −3.9 Speed Index medium effort
- 150 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
SEO 30 · 70 points to gain
- −40.3 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −10 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −10 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
- −10 Links are not crawlable medium effort
Accessibility 81 · 19 points to gain
- −5 Buttons do not have an accessible name medium effort
- −3.5 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −3.5 Links do not have a discernible name medium effort
- −3.5 Lists do not contain only `<li>` elements and script supporting elements (`<script>` and `<template>`). low effort
- −3.5 List items (`<li>`) are not contained within `<ul>`, `<ol>` or `<menu>` parent elements. low effort
Desktop
Speed 99 · 1 points to gain
- −0.5 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
SEO 30 · 70 points to gain
- −40.3 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −10 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −10 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
- −10 Links are not crawlable medium effort
Accessibility 77 · 23 points to gain
- −5 Buttons do not have an accessible name medium effort
- −3.5 `[aria-hidden="true"]` elements contain focusable descendents medium effort
- −3.5 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −3.5 Links do not have a discernible name medium effort
- −3.5 Lists do not contain only `<li>` elements and script supporting elements (`<script>` and `<template>`). low effort
- −3.5 List items (`<li>`) are not contained within `<ul>`, `<ol>` or `<menu>` parent elements. low effort
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Digital Newspaper default demo ↗ | 75 | 30 | 81 | 99 | 30 | 77 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 75 | 30 | 81 | 99 | 30 | 77 | 2026-09-12 |
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