CentralNews
CentralNews is a WordPress theme by AF themes (Free). Tested on 2026-10-12 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 94 for mobile speed and 99 for desktop speed, 54/54 for SEO and 99/95 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100). On its marketplace it is rated 5.0 out of 5 from 10 reviews.
Mobile94
Desktop99
Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 94 | 99 |
| SEO | 54 | 54 |
| Accessibility | 99 | 95 |
| Best practices | 100 | 100 |
Single preset · measured 4 times since 2026-10-12 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — CentralNews home page
Mobile
Speed 94 · 6 points to gain
- −4.7 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −1.1 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −0.6 Speed Index medium effort
- 150 ms Reduce unused CSS high effort
SEO 54 · 46 points to gain
- −36.6 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −9.1 Document does not have a meta description low effort
Accessibility 99 · 1 points to gain
- −1.4 Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order medium effort
Desktop
Speed 99 · 1 points to gain
- −0.8 Speed Index medium effort
- −0.5 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
SEO 54 · 46 points to gain
- −36.6 Page is blocked from indexing low effort
- −9.1 Document does not have a meta description low effort
Accessibility 95 · 5 points to gain
- −3.3 `[aria-hidden="true"]` elements contain focusable descendents medium effort
- −1.4 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 | ||||||
| CentralNews default demo ↗ | 94 | 54 | 99 | 99 | 54 | 95 | 2026-10-12 |
| home ↗ | 94 | 54 | 99 | 99 | 54 | 95 | 2026-10-12 |
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