Perfect News
Perfect News is a WordPress theme by Ascendoor (Free). Tested on 2026-10-09 with Google Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights on its own demo store, it scores 89 for mobile speed and 97 for desktop speed, 50/50 for SEO and 100/100 for accessibility (mobile/desktop, 0–100).
Mobile89

Desktop97

Scores
| Mobile | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | 89 | 97 |
| SEO | 50 | 50 |
| Accessibility | 100 | 100 |
| Best practices | 100 | 100 |
Single preset · measured 2 times since 2026-10-09 · Lighthouse via PageSpeed Insights · 0–100, 90+ is good.
Why not 100 — Perfect News home page
Mobile
Speed 89 · 11 points to gain
- −4.2 First Contentful Paint medium effort
- −4 Largest Contentful Paint medium effort
- −2.9 Speed Index medium effort
- 150 ms Minify CSS low 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
Desktop
Speed 97 · 3 points to gain
- −2.5 Speed Index 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
Presets and pages
| Preset / page | Speed | SEO | A11y | Speed | SEO | A11y | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mobile | desktop | ||||||
| Perfect News default demo ↗ | 89 | 50 | 100 | 97 | 50 | 100 | 2026-10-09 |
| home ↗ | 89 | 50 | 100 | 97 | 50 | 100 | 2026-10-09 |