How Fast Are the Websites of Czech and Slovak Political Parties?

A fast website isn't just important for e-shops.

Political parties in this year's parliamentary elections have shown they understand this too. According to PageSpeed.ONE measurements, major players like SPOLU, ANO, Pirates, and STAN have fast and technically sound websites.

In contrast, smaller entities often lag not only in electoral preferences but also in loading speed.

SPOLU Leaped Ahead, ANO a Close Second#

Among Czech political websites, SPOLU leads the pack, with its site loading on mobile in just 0.61 seconds.

It is followed by ANO (1.07 seconds) and Pirates (1.95 seconds).

Among the slower ones are Přísaha and Motoristé sobě, whose websites load in about three seconds.

Today, political websites match the level of the best commercial projects. In this regard, the creators of SPOLU's website are even better than the fastest commercial e-shop of 2024, iWant.cz.

When a party masters web optimization as well as a contact campaign, it shows.

STAČILO! Website Floundered#

Some websites, however, demonstrate that having just an appealing design isn't enough.

The STAČILO! movement's page responded seven times slower than SPOLU's website and was often unstable during testing. It likely couldn't handle higher loads, which could indicate insufficient infrastructure or an overburdened server.

For voters, this means that if they wanted to, say, read the program, they had to wait. And in the web world, where every second counts, that's simply too long.

When Speed Translates into Emissions#

Every megabyte of data transferred means energy consumption—on servers, networks, and voters' mobiles.
A slow website thus harms not only user experience but also the planet.

An example? The homepage of Motoristé sobě is over 11 MB.

If every one of their voters visited it once a year, it would produce over half a ton of CO₂—as much as is generated by brewing 78,000 cups of tea.


Slovak Political Parties Fare Worse#

In Slovakia, the fastest websites are progresivne.sk and strana-smer.sk, both around 1.4 seconds.

On average, however, Slovak websites remain slower (2.2 seconds) than Czech ones (1.9 seconds). Does this suggest that in the Czech Republic, web optimization became a standard part of campaigns a bit earlier?

A Fast Website as a Sign of Sophistication#

Political parties now understand that a website is not just an online bulletin board, but a service to voters that reflects the brand and can convert into votes in elections.

When a website loads quickly, works reliably, and saves energy, it says a lot not only about the quality of the code but also about the quality of the organization.

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