Early News
Early News is a WordPress theme by artifythemes (Free). Tested on 2026-09-12 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 78 for mobile speed and 97 for desktop speed, 50/50 for SEO and 100/100 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).
Mobile78
Desktop97
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 78 | 97 |
| SEO | 50 | 50 |
| Accessibility | 100 | 100 |
| 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 — Early News home page
Mobile
Speed 78 · 22 points to gain
- −11.5 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −7.4 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −2.8 Speed Index medium effort
SEO 50 · 50 points to gain
- −40.3 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −10 Document does not have a meta description low effort
Desktop
Speed 97 · 3 points to gain
- −1.8 Speed Index medium effort
- −0.8 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −0.7 First Contentful Paint medium effort
SEO 50 · 50 points to gain
- −40.3 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −10 Document does not have a meta description low effort
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Early News default demo ↗ | 78 | 50 | 100 | 97 | 50 | 100 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 78 | 50 | 100 | 97 | 50 | 100 | 2026-09-12 |
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