Carpenders
carpenders.co.uk
Carpenders Park Garden Centre is a UK-based garden retailer offering a wide selection of outdoor living products including garden furniture, artificial plants and topiary, stoneware ornaments, solar lights, BBQs, fire pits, and decorative garden accessories. The centre also features The Evergreen Restaurant and provides landscaping and outdoor design solutions for residential customers.
Performance Needs Attention
This store scores 43/100 on PageSpeed, which is below the recommended threshold of 50. Consider optimizing images, reducing JavaScript, and enabling better caching.
Products
4,325
Collections
232
Pages
40
Blog Posts
3
CommerceRank Score
Overall store health assessment based on 5 key factors
63/100
Top Recommendations
- Critical: PageSpeed below 50 is hurting conversions
- PageSpeed is 14 points below Home & Garden category average (57)
- Add a reviews platform to build customer trust
PageSpeed Performance Analysis
Mobile performance from Google PageSpeed • 23 Feb 2026
Overall Ranking
#2 / 16375
Faster than 100% of stores
Home & Garden Ranking
#7 / 260
Top 3% in category
Category Avg Performance
57
-14 below avg
Category Avg LCP
1.7s
Faster than avg
Performance
Accessibility
SEO
Core Web Vitals
1.5s
Largest Contentful Paint
0.000
Cumulative Layout Shift
124ms
Interaction to Next Paint
Additional Metrics
1.0s
First Contentful Paint
333ms
Time to First Byte
12.7s
Speed Index
Store Audit
Actionable insights compared to 366 Home & Garden stores
#8 in Home & Garden
Top 2% of stores
675% above average
4,325 products vs 558 avg
Faster than 97% of Home & Garden stores
PageSpeed score: 43/100
Category Benchmarks
Compared to 366 stores in Home & Garden
675% above average
avg
268% above average
avg
122% above average
avg
92% below average
avg
Category Intelligence
How Carpenders compares to other home & garden stores
13%
of Home & Garden stores use Klarna
Insights
- 56% of Home & Garden stores offer PayPal
Theme & Design
Theme Name
BespokeType
Custom / Bespoke
Tech Stack
Platform
shopify
Payment / Finance
Business Profile
Store maturity and operational indicators
Stable
NaN+ year
Since Invalid Date
Top 10% largest catalog
Top 2% by catalog size
high
Strong content (3 blogs, 40 pages)
Tech Stack Maturity
Mature stack
Business Sophistication
Established
Store Timeline & History
Feb 2026
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About Carpenders
Carpenders is a home & garden ecommerce store built on shopify and operating in GB. The store currently offers 4,325 products organized across 232 collections, making it larger than average for the home & garden category.
Theme and Design
Carpenders uses the Bespoke theme, a custom-built solution tailored specifically for this store. This theme choice provides the foundation for their online presence.
Performance Analysis
Based on Google PageSpeed Insights, Carpenders achieves a performance score of 43/100 on mobile devices. This score indicates significant opportunities for performance optimization, which could improve conversions and search rankings. The store also scores 78/100 for accessibility and 85/100 for SEO optimization.
Tech Stack
Beyond the core Shopify platform, Carpenders has not implemented a third-party review platform and offers Klarna, Clearpay for payment flexibility. Compared to other home & garden stores, 56% of home & garden stores offer paypal
Competitive Positioning
Within the Home & Garden category, Carpenders ranks #8 out of 366 stores we track. This places them in the top 2% of home & garden stores by product catalog size.
Last scanned
Feb 22, 2026
