News Blogs
News Blogs is a WordPress theme by Silk Themes (Free). Tested on 2026-09-13 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 87 for mobile speed and 99 for desktop speed, 50/50 for SEO and 74/88 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).
Mobile87
Desktop99
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 87 | 99 |
| SEO | 50 | 50 |
| Accessibility | 74 | 88 |
| 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 — News Blogs home page
Mobile
Speed 87 · 13 points to gain
- −4.3 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −4.3 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
- −4.2 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- 170 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
- 170 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
SEO 50 · 50 points to gain
- −33.6 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −8.3 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −8.3 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 74 · 26 points to gain
- −6.4 Buttons do not have an accessible name medium effort
- −6.4 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
- −4.5 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −4.5 List items (`<li>`) are not contained within `<ul>`, `<ol>` or `<menu>` parent elements. low effort
- −1.9 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
- −1.9 Document does not have a main landmark. medium effort
Desktop
SEO 50 · 50 points to gain
- −33.6 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −8.3 Document does not have a meta description low effort
- −8.3 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
Accessibility 88 · 12 points to gain
- −5.3 Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes low effort
- −3.7 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
- −1.6 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
- −1.6 Document does not have a main landmark. medium effort
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| News Blogs default demo ↗ | 87 | 50 | 74 | 99 | 50 | 88 | 2026-09-13 |
| home ↗ | 87 | 50 | 74 | 99 | 50 | 88 | 2026-09-13 |
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