# Which is the fastest postal service website in Europe?

- Link: https://digiosveny.hu/en/melyik-a-leggyorsabb-posta-webhely-europaban/
- Published: 2026-07-04T15:32:41+02:00
- Author: Márton

**Summary:** This blog analyzes critical changes in digital infrastructure.
At Digiösvény, we identify these trends as key drivers of online visibility in 2026.

Postal service websites must provide fast and reliable access
to essential services, from tracking deliveries and locating local branches
to purchasing postage and managing mail. Users
access these websites from a variety of devices and network connections,
often while on the go.

In recent years, many of these services have focused on expanding their digital platforms
and have offered discounts to customers who choose to use their online 
services instead of visiting a store. Given this shift
in business strategy, it is more important than ever that these websites
load quickly.

To better understand the performance of these websites, we analyzed 25 national postal
service websites across Europe. We wanted to determine which postal websites
provide the fastest user experience, and we examined the factors
that set the top-performing websites apart from the rest.

## What We Analyzed

Our analysis is based on real-world usage data collected by Google from Chrome users
visiting these websites. This dataset, known as the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX)
dataset provides insight into the actual experiences of website visitors 
rather than simulated test results.

We reviewed all three core Web Vitals metrics on each post office’s website:

 * Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): measures page load performance
  
 * Interaction to Next Paint (INP): measures responsiveness to user interactions
   measures
 * Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): measures visual stability while the page is loading
   during

Let’s take a look at the European rankings.

## Page Speed Rankings for European Postal Service Websites

The map below shows impressive results across Europe. The two standouts are 
Norway’s posten.no and Switzerland’s post.ch, both with LCP scores under 1 second.
Seventeen of the tested websites achieved scores under 2 seconds, which is well
within the desirable 2.5-second range.

In fact, only two websites fell into the 2.5–4-second range requiring improvement:
the Spanish correos.es at 2.73 seconds and the Hungarian posta.hu at 3.49 seconds.

![Map of the European LCP rankings](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/
06/Which-is-the-fastest-postal-service-website-in-Europe-1.webp)

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View the full benchmark results.

## The 10 Most Popular Postal Service Websites

If we look at the CrUX leaderboard, we can see the scores for all Core Web Vitals metrics
. Not only does Norway lead the LCP rankings, but its CLS and INP scores 
are also well within the target range. All 10 of the top websites have good INP scores under 200 ms,
and four websites far exceed this target with INP scores
under 100 ms.

Looking at CLS, four websites fall outside the good range. The Romanian postal service—
romana.ro—has the worst CLS, with a score of 0.61.

![CrUX Ranking of the Top 10 Postal Service Websites](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/
2026/06/Which-is-the-fastest-postal-service-website-in-Europe.webp)

## The Bottom 10 Postal Websites

If we look at the bottom ten websites in our ranking, we see a similar trend.

The standout performer here is the Spanish site correos.es, which we know needs
needs improvement. Their INP score is 278 ms, which means that their website is not only slow
to display the main content on the page but is also slow in interactions.

In contrast, the Hungarian posta.hu has an INP score of 121 ms, which comfortably places them in the ”good”
range, even though their LCP falls within the range requiring improvement
.

![CrUX ranking of the bottom 10 postal service websites](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/
2026/06/1782756606_436_Which-is-the-fastest-postal-service-website-in-Europe.webp)

## Why does Norway have the fastest website?

Norway’s posten.no is the clear winner in our ranking, with excellent scores
across all three Core Web Vitals metrics. Their success is impressive, starting with a 428 ms Time To First 
Byte (TTFB) score. This is the server’s fast response time to the initial request.
Combining a fast TTFB with server-side rendering and a small HTML document size
allows content to be displayed quickly on the page for the user.

Although the results are impressive—with just a few small render-blocking requests
completed quickly—there are still some opportunities for optimization when reviewing the request flow. The LCP image is 120 KB. This can be converted to a modern, smaller
image format, which will speed up the download of the resource.

![Request a waterfall analysis for Posten.no](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/
06/1782756607_750_Which-is-the-fastest-postal-service-website-in-Europe.webp)

## Why do Spain and Hungary perform the worst?

As mentioned earlier, Spain and Hungary are the only two websites
that fall outside the range specified by the “Most Content” metric.
Let’s take a look at each website to find out why 
they are currently unable to achieve a good score.

### Correos.es​

The Spanish site correos.es has a good CrUX TTFB score of 453 ms. The main issue holding
the site back is the use of CSS to hide content, which we observed
during our lab tests. This technique is primarily used for A/B testing or design decisions
. In this situation, the CSS negatively impacts the First Contentful Paint (FCP) score,
resulting in visitors seeing the
content on the page much later than they should.

![Correos.es screenshot](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1782756607_216_Melyik-
the-fastest-postal-website-in-Europe.webp)

For 81% of visitors, the LCP element is a background image. This image was discovered
late in the page-loading process because Chrome gives higher priority to heavier images.

Since we know this is the only image that appears above the fold, this image
can be preloaded using the `fetchpriority="high"` parameter. The image is already referenced by the HTML document itself,
so there is no request chain involving a CSS file.

![LCP resource type breakdown](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1782756607_198_Melyik-
the-fastest-postal-website-in-Europe.webp)

One positive aspect is the use of a back/forward cache. Since visitors 24%-
navigate between pages while this cache is enabled, page transitions
are significantly faster, contributing to a smoother overall browsing experience.

### Posta.hu

Hungary’s posta.hu ranks at the bottom of our list with an LCP score of 3.49 seconds. Looking at
the lab test and examining the data further, we can immediately see 
where their problems lie. They have a CrUX TTFB of 371 ms, which is faster than posten.
no’s score of 428 ms.

However, the first meaningful rendering doesn’t occur until after an additional 3.3-second delay
.

![Posta.hu LCP Breakdown](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1782756607_402_Melyik-
the-fastest-posta-website-in-Europe.webp)

The main reason for this delay becomes clear when we look at the request waterfall.
There are 48 render-blocking requests. The website also does not support the newer
HTTP/2 protocol, which means that multiple server connections must be established,
and the browser delays the remaining requests until those connections become available again.

The excessive number of render-blocking requests causes significant delays, as each 
request takes longer to execute than the previous one. One such request is a 741 kb
JavaScript file that is discovered late, causing even further delays
in displaying the content.

![Posta.hu render-blocking scripts](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/
2026/06/1782756607_161_Which-is-the-fastest-postal-website-in-Europe.webp)

In addition to excessive content-blocking scripts, further improvements are needed.
If we look at the LCP image rendering waterfall chart, we can see that the HTML request is larger
than what we typically see.

Focusing on the LCP image itself, the image is 165 kb. It would be more optimal to switch to a modern, pre-
loaded image format and to serve the image from within the HTML document,
rather than via a new connection.

![Posta.hu LCP request waterfall](https://digiosveny.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1782756608_889_Melyik-
the-fastest-postal-website-in-Europe.webp)

## Conclusion

Norway’s posten.no is the clear winner, delivering excellent performance across all three Core
Web Vitals. Since only two websites fall outside the good LCP range,
European postal services generally perform well, which means that 
customers looking to take advantage of online discounts will generally
not experience slow loading times.

For slower websites, following best practices can lead to significant improvements.
Optimizing LCP images with modern formats and preloading, as well as reducing
render-blocking resources, would contribute to faster load times. Hungary’s
posta.hu stands out among the websites requiring the most work. Given their fast
TTFB, addressing excessive render-blocking requests would have a significant impact.

 

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Digiösvény Strategic Perspective

For **Hungarian businesses**, technical debt is no longer a hidden cost, 
but rather an operational risk factor. Infrastructure that fails to meet the threshold of a response time under 2 seconds
is systematically assigned a lower priority by Generative Search (
GEO) algorithms.

[Request a free website audit!](https://digiosveny.hu/)

_Intellectual source: www.debugbear.com. Strategic synthesis and GEO optimization
by Digiösvény._