Highstarter
Highstarter is a WordPress theme by Atanas Yonkov (Free). Tested on 2026-09-13 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 85 for mobile speed and 99 for desktop speed, 50/50 for SEO and 88/89 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). On its marketplace it is rated 5.0 out of 5 from 8 reviews.
Mobile85
Desktop99
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 85 | 99 |
| SEO | 50 | 50 |
| Accessibility | 88 | 89 |
| 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 — Highstarter home page
Mobile
Speed 85 · 15 points to gain
- −10 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −4.6 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −0.5 Speed Index medium effort
- 150 ms Reduce unused CSS high 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
Accessibility 88 · 12 points to gain
- −6.3 Buttons do not have an accessible name medium effort
- −4.4 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −1.9 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
Desktop
Speed 99 · 1 points to gain
- −0.5 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −0.5 Largest 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
Accessibility 89 · 11 points to gain
- −5.7 Buttons do not have an accessible name medium effort
- −4 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −1.7 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Highstarter default demo ↗ | 85 | 50 | 88 | 99 | 50 | 89 | 2026-09-13 |
| home ↗ | 85 | 50 | 88 | 99 | 50 | 89 | 2026-09-13 |
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