Laura James
laura-james.co.uk
Laura James is a home and garden furniture retailer specializing in contemporary collections including garden sofas, dining sets, wooden furniture, rattan sets, and conservatory pieces. The brand positions itself as offering innovative design with quality construction at affordable prices for modern everyday living.
Performance Needs Attention
This store scores 31/100 on PageSpeed, which is below the recommended threshold of 50. Consider optimizing images, reducing JavaScript, and enabling better caching.
Products
4,230
Collections
457
Pages
159
Blog Posts
198
CommerceRank Score
Overall store health assessment based on 5 key factors
75/100
Top Recommendations
- Critical: PageSpeed below 50 is hurting conversions
- PageSpeed is 25 points below Furniture category average (56)
- SEO score is 69/100 - fix meta tags, alt text, and structured data
PageSpeed Performance Analysis
Mobile performance from Google PageSpeed • 19 Feb 2026
Overall Ranking
#15475 / 16375
Faster than 5% of stores
Furniture Ranking
#257 / 281
Top 91% in category
Category Avg Performance
56
-25 below avg
Category Avg LCP
1.8s
Faster than avg
Performance
Accessibility
SEO
Core Web Vitals
1.6s
Largest Contentful Paint
0.000
Cumulative Layout Shift
195ms
Interaction to Next Paint
Additional Metrics
Store Audit
Actionable insights compared to 446 Furniture stores
#27 in Furniture
Top 6% of stores
306% above average
4,230 products vs 1,042 avg
Slower than 91% of Furniture stores
PageSpeed score: 31/100
Category Benchmarks
Compared to 446 stores in Furniture
306% above average
avg
195% above average
avg
3% below average
avg
435% above average
avg
Theme & Design
Theme Name
BespokeType
Custom / Bespoke
Tech Stack
Platform
shopify
Reviews Platform
Yotpo
Payment / Finance
Business Profile
Store maturity and operational indicators
Stable
3 months
Since Jan 2026
Top 10% largest catalog
Top 6% by catalog size
high
Strong content (198 blogs, 159 pages)
Tech Stack Maturity
Advanced stack
Business Sophistication
Mature
Store Timeline & History
Jan 2026
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About Laura James
Laura James is a furniture ecommerce store built on shopify and operating in GB. The store currently offers 4,230 products organized across 457 collections, making it larger than average for the furniture category.
Theme and Design
Laura James 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, Laura James achieves a performance score of 31/100 on mobile devices. This score indicates significant opportunities for performance optimization, which could improve conversions and search rankings. The store also scores 92/100 for accessibility and 69/100 for SEO optimization.
Tech Stack
Beyond the core Shopify platform, Laura James uses Yotpo for customer reviews and offers Pipe, PayPal, Klarna, Afterpay, Zip (Quadpay) for payment flexibility.
Competitive Positioning
Within the Furniture category, Laura James ranks #27 out of 446 stores we track. This places them in the top 6% of furniture stores by product catalog size.
Last scanned
Feb 18, 2026
