Essence News
Essence 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 91 for mobile speed and 98 for desktop speed, 50/50 for SEO and 100/100 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).
Mobile91
Desktop98
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 91 | 98 |
| 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 — Essence News home page
Mobile
Speed 91 · 9 points to gain
- −3.5 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −2.7 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 98 · 2 points to gain
- −2 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
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Essence News default demo ↗ | 91 | 50 | 100 | 98 | 50 | 100 | 2026-09-12 |
| home ↗ | 91 | 50 | 100 | 98 | 50 | 100 | 2026-09-12 |
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