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Merchant Bright

Merchant Bright is a BigCommerce theme by BigCommerce ($195). Tested on 2026-11-10 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 56 for mobile speed and 74 for desktop speed, 61/61 for SEO and 76/67 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).

Mobile48
Merchant Bright home page on mobile
Desktop57
Merchant Bright home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed5674
SEO6161
Accessibility7667
Best practices8080

Single preset · measured 30 times since 2026-11-07 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Merchant-Bright home page

Mobile

Speed 48 · 52 points to gain

  • −25 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −22.5 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
  • −3 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −0.9 Speed Index medium effort
  • −0.8 First Contentful Paint medium effort
  • 4.2 s Minify JavaScript low effort
  • 900 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort
  • 150 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort

SEO 61 · 39 points to gain

  • −31 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort

Accessibility 77 · 23 points to gain

  • −5.2 Buttons do not have an accessible name medium effort
  • −5.2 `[user-scalable="no"]` is used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element or the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is less than 5. low effort
  • −3.6 `[aria-hidden="true"]` elements contain focusable descendents medium effort
  • −3.6 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −3.6 Touch targets do not have sufficient size or spacing. medium effort
  • −1.6 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort

Best practices 81 · 19 points to gain

  • −19.2 Uses deprecated APIs medium effort

Desktop

Speed 57 · 43 points to gain

  • −19.3 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
  • −14.5 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −8.4 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −0.8 Speed Index medium effort
  • 720 ms Minify JavaScript low effort
  • 200 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort

SEO 61 · 39 points to gain

  • −31 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort

Accessibility 73 · 27 points to gain

  • −5 Buttons do not have an accessible name medium effort
  • −5 `[user-scalable="no"]` is used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element or the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is less than 5. low effort
  • −5 Select elements do not have associated label elements. 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 Touch targets do not have sufficient size or spacing. medium effort

Best practices 81 · 19 points to gain

  • −19.2 Uses deprecated APIs medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Merchant-Bright default demo ↗ 566176746167 2026-11-07
category ↗ 716174926164 2026-11-07
home ↗ 486177576173 2026-11-07
product ↗ 506177736163 2026-11-10

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