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Story

Story is a Shopify theme by Groupthought ($280). Tested on 2026-11-08 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 86 for mobile speed and 90 for desktop speed, 62/62 for SEO and 99/93 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). Those are medians across its 4 tested presets; mobile speed across every tested page ranges from 71 to 94. On its marketplace it is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 22 reviews.

Mobile74
Story home page on mobile
Desktop72
Story home page on desktop

Scores

MobileDesktop
Speed8690
SEO6262
Accessibility9993
Best practices9799

Median of 4 presets · measured 120 times since 2026-10-09 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.

Why not 100 — Story home page

Mobile

Speed 74 · 26 points to gain

  • −23.8 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
  • −1.9 Speed Index medium effort
  • 300 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
  • 300 ms Reduce unused JavaScript high effort

SEO 46 · 54 points to gain

  • −31 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
  • −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
  • −7.7 Links are not crawlable medium effort

Accessibility 92 · 8 points to gain

  • −3.8 Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. medium effort
  • −3.8 Links do not have a discernible name medium effort

Best practices 96 · 4 points to gain

  • −3.8 Browser errors were logged to the console medium effort

Desktop

Speed 72 · 28 points to gain

  • −23 Cumulative Layout Shift medium effort
  • −3.3 Total Blocking Time medium effort
  • −1.6 Speed Index medium effort

SEO 46 · 54 points to gain

  • −31 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
  • −7.7 Document does not have a meta description low effort
  • −7.7 Links do not have descriptive text low effort
  • −7.7 Links are not crawlable medium effort

Accessibility 84 · 16 points to gain

  • −5.2 `[aria-*]` attributes do not match their roles medium 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 Links do not have a discernible name medium effort

Best practices 96 · 4 points to gain

  • −3.8 Browser errors were logged to the console medium effort

Presets and pages

Preset / pageSpeedSEOA11ySpeedSEOA11yTested
mobiledesktop
Shale demo ↗ 8364100906494 2026-11-08
category ↗ 8869100996995 2026-11-08
home ↗ 7361100726192 2026-11-08
product ↗ 8961100996195 2026-11-08
Solace demo ↗ 866499886493 2026-11-07
category ↗ 9369100996995 2026-11-07
home ↗ 716196666188 2026-11-08
product ↗ 9461100996195 2026-11-07
Spade demo ↗ 875999905993 2026-11-07
category ↗ 9369100996995 2026-11-07
home ↗ 754696724688 2026-11-08
product ↗ 9361100996195 2026-11-07
Story default demo ↗ 855997905991 2026-11-07
category ↗ 93691001006995 2026-11-07
home ↗ 744692724684 2026-11-07
product ↗ 8961100996195 2026-11-07

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Story: mobile speed 86 on Themestested
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