Which WordPress theme is actually the fastest? Instead of guessing, we measure. Every month we run Google Lighthouse against the 50 most popular themes on WordPress.org — using each theme’s official demo on wp-themes.com, where every theme serves identical content on identical hosting. That means the score differences below come from one thing only: the theme’s own CSS, JavaScript and fonts.
Scores are Lighthouse performance scores (0–100) for mobile and desktop, along with Largest Contentful Paint and total page weight — the numbers that matter for Core Web Vitals and your own Google rankings.
| # | Theme | Mobile | Desktop | LCP (mobile) | Page weight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Blocksyblocksy | 100 | 100 | 1.1 s | 43.4 KB |
| 2 |  | Futurio Storefrontfuturio-storefront | 100 | 100 | 1.4 s | 163.0 KB |
| 3 |  | GeneratePressgeneratepress | 100 | 100 | 0.9 s | 17.8 KB |
| 4 |  | Hello Elementorhello-elementor | 100 | 100 | 0.8 s | 11.8 KB |
| 5 |  | HybridMaghybridmag | 100 | 100 | 1.2 s | 108.6 KB |
| 6 |  | Kadencekadence | 100 | 100 | 1.1 s | 36.4 KB |
| 7 |  | Royal Elementor Kitroyal-elementor-kit | 100 | 100 | 0.8 s | 11.2 KB |
| 8 |  | Twenty Twenty-Threetwentytwentythree | 100 | 100 | 0.8 s | 13.7 KB |
| 9 |  | YITH Wonderyith-wonder | 100 | 100 | 1.5 s | 118.5 KB |
| 10 |  | Zakrazakra | 100 | 100 | 1.4 s | 896.4 KB |
| 11 |  | Twenty Twenty-Onetwentytwentyone | 100 | 99 | 1.8 s | 748.4 KB |
| 12 |  | Sydneysydney | 100 | 96 | 0.9 s | 29.7 KB |
| 13 |  | Hello Bizhello-biz | 100 | 91 | 1.5 s | 538.0 KB |
| 14 |  | Bluehost Blueprintbluehost-blueprint | 99 | 100 | 1.7 s | 154.3 KB |
| 15 |  | OceanWPoceanwp | 99 | 100 | 1.5 s | 334.7 KB |
| 16 |  | Twenty Seventeentwentyseventeen | 99 | 100 | 2.1 s | 627.2 KB |
| 17 |  | Extendableextendable | 97 | 100 | 2.6 s | 349.6 KB |
| 18 |  | PopularFXpopularfx | 97 | 100 | 2.6 s | 104.2 KB |
| 19 |  | Silverstormsilverstorm | 97 | 100 | 2.0 s | 361.7 KB |
| 20 |  | Twenty Eleventwentyeleven | 97 | 100 | 2.6 s | 111.5 KB |
| 21 |  | Twenty Nineteentwentynineteen | 97 | 100 | 2.6 s | 89.2 KB |
| 22 |  | Twenty Twenty-Fivetwentytwentyfive | 97 | 100 | 2.7 s | 113.8 KB |
| 23 |  | Unibizunibiz | 97 | 100 | 2.4 s | 566.0 KB |
| 24 |  | Blogsyblogsy | 96 | 100 | 2.5 s | 164.3 KB |
| 25 |  | Booknestbooknest | 94 | 100 | 3.2 s | 495.5 KB |
| 26 |  | Kubiokubio | 94 | 100 | 2.9 s | 2.1 MB |
| 27 |  | Twenty Fifteentwentyfifteen | 94 | 100 | 2.9 s | 244.4 KB |
| 28 |  | Twenty Sixteentwentysixteen | 94 | 100 | 2.9 s | 274.5 KB |
| 29 |  | Blogsy Newsblogsy-news | 93 | 98 | 2.7 s | 214.6 KB |
| 30 |  | Astraastra | 92 | 99 | 2.7 s | 143.1 KB |
| 31 |  | Inspiroinspiro | 92 | 99 | 2.7 s | 179.1 KB |
| 32 |  | Woostifywoostify | 92 | 99 | 2.7 s | 168.2 KB |
| 33 |  | OnePressonepress | 92 | 98 | 2.7 s | 411.3 KB |
| 34 |  | Envo Royalenvo-royal | 91 | 99 | 3.1 s | 368.0 KB |
| 35 |  | Gogo | 90 | 99 | 3.1 s | 150.0 KB |
| 36 |  | Rufousrufous | 90 | 99 | 3.6 s | 2.0 MB |
| 37 |  | Storefrontstorefront | 90 | 99 | 3.0 s | 164.1 KB |
| 38 |  | Twenty Twenty-Twotwentytwentytwo | 89 | 100 | 3.8 s | 534.9 KB |
| 39 |  | Neveneve | 89 | 99 | 3.1 s | 295.5 KB |
| 40 |  | News Magazine Xnews-magazine-x | 89 | 99 | 2.7 s | 192.2 KB |
| 41 |  | News Accessnews-access | 88 | 98 | 2.9 s | 483.5 KB |
| 42 |  | Online Newspaperonline-newspaper | 88 | 98 | 3.0 s | 570.5 KB |
| 43 |  | Lightninglightning | 84 | 99 | 3.9 s | 468.0 KB |
| 44 |  | Twenty Twentytwentytwenty | 81 | 100 | 1.4 s | 319.2 KB |
| 45 |  | Variationsvariations | 81 | 99 | 4.7 s | 945.7 KB |
| 46 |  | Twenty Twenty-Fourtwentytwentyfour | 78 | 94 | 5.7 s | 967.6 KB |
| 47 |  | BlogHashbloghash | 74 | 98 | 4.3 s | 518.5 KB |
| 48 |  | Hestiahestia | 67 | 82 | 3.5 s | 1.1 MB |
| 49 |  | NewsBloggernewsblogger | 56 | 98 | 4.7 s | 547.5 KB |
Google Lighthouse performance scores measured on each theme's official wordpress.org demo (wp-themes.com) — identical content on identical hosting, so differences come from the theme itself.
How to read this table: 90+ (green) is fast; 50–89 (orange) means the theme ships noticeable overhead before your content even starts; page weight shows how much a completely empty site built with the theme already makes visitors download. A lightweight theme won’t fix a slow site by itself — plugins and images usually weigh more — but a heavy theme sets a floor you can never optimize below.
Scores naturally vary a few points between runs; we re-test monthly. Click any theme for its full profile: ranking history, install trends, and per-theme performance details.