Finding the Fastest WordPress Theme for either your blog, e-commerce website, or portfolio, is not really a straightforward task, no one has bandwidth to test through multiple WordPress themes to find the most optimal, lightweight and the fastest product. No matter how great your hosting is (even if LaunchWP 🙂), you won’t be able to serve a Blazing Fast WordPress website without proper design with a good theme, or good sets of scalable plugins.
In this article, we have shortlisted the 3 most Fastest and Lightweight WordPress themes available, which will provide a great design interface for your Blog, Portfolio, or maybe for your E-Commerce shop, with awesome performance outcomes, combined with LaunchWP’s Enterprise Grade super-performant Server Stack and multi-layer caching.
3 Fastest WordPress Themes
Divi (+ Divi Builder)
Divi is a versatile WordPress theme, bundled with the Divi Builder, a lightweight and powerful visual builder. It’s developed and maintained by Elegant Themes. It allows users to create fully custom pages with a true drag-and-drop interface—no coding required. Divi Builder works natively within the theme, so you don’t need extra plugins to add features like responsive layouts, dynamic content, or animation effects. It’s optimized for performance and compatible with modern web standards, making it a solid choice for both beginners and developers looking for flexibility and speed.
Performance Results:-
- First Contentful Paint: 4.1s
- Largest Contentful Paint: 1.2s
- Cumulative Layout Shift: 1.7s
BeTheme (+ BeBuilder)
BeTheme is a multipurpose WordPress theme, its packed with over 650 pre-built websites covering a wide range of industries and styles. BeTheme also has an built-in page editor, BeBuilder. It’s a fast and modern visual editing experience with full WooCommerce integration for eCommerce sites. Recently they released an update with a powerful Query Builder. You will be able to create dynamic content-driven layouts without coding. BeTheme focuses on design flexibility, performance optimization, and responsiveness—making it a strong choice for users building anything from portfolios to complex business sites.
Performance Results:-
- First Contentful Paint: 4.2s
- Largest Contentful Paint: 2.9s
- Cumulative Layout Shift: 3.5s
Beaver Builder Theme
Beaver Builder is a simple WordPress page builder known for its stability, clean code, ease of use and ofcourse performance. The Beaver Builder Theme is built on the Bootstrap framework and it offers a lightweight and responsive foundation ideal for both developers and DIY users alike. It is seamlessly integrated with the Beaver Builder plugin. The builder enables drag-and-drop page creation without even the touching code. Its ecosystem includes tools like Beaver Themer, which lets you design headers, footers, and archive layouts visually. With a focus on speed, flexibility, and rock-solid updates, it’s a go-to choice for building fast, professional WordPress sites.
Performance Results:-
- First Contentful Paint: 3.8s
- Largest Contentful Paint: 1.8s
- Cumulative Layout Shift: 1.9s
How The Themes were Tested
Tests were ran through PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix. Lighthouse is behind these performance tools, and helps you analyze both your visitors experience and website’s performance. No caching plugins was used as a part of the test, and the tests were done in a similar kind of page, deisgned by the basic WordPress Editor. The default blocks were used to create a hero banner with a button, one call to action (a full section with an image), five testimonials with pictures, two titles and two subtitles, eight services with pictures, and four icons and text.
Wrapping up
We hope this small test would help you better decide the theme for your next WordPress website. With any either of these, LaunchWP’s default caching improves the performance by inbuilt caching layers, page caching, NGINX proxy and object caching.
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