> So few of these are actually good sites. The majority are text-only portfolios. Go figure they’re a paltry few kB.

I agree. I still think the website with one of the highest content-to-form ratio is gnu.org:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

It makes the reader mode unnecessary - as opposed to the old version that wasn't split into columns so reading was slower:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070311064322/https://www.gnu.or...