Themes

Shopify theme performance benchmarks

Real-world Lighthouse scores + Core Web Vitals, measured by the SOptim Audit Bot across a sample of public storefronts running each theme. Every cohort here has 10+ stores audited within the last 30 days.

Dawn
Shopify

Shopify's free reference theme. We audited 47 storefronts running Dawn in May 2026 and measured p75 Lighthouse performance of 72.

Perf p75

72

LCP p75

2.4s

Stores

47

Shopify theme performance benchmarks

Dawn