During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by Dwedit on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:27PM (#46495334)

I looked at a CNN "lite" article, and it includes 560KB of stuff (lots and lots of CSS declarations) in addition to the actual 11KB of article content.

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by zamadatix on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:56PM (#46495467)

While still wasteful, CSS is one of those things you can do astronomically wrong before it starts being noticeable. Case in point here: inlining 560 kb of CSS with the page and just sending it with the entire HTML file each time is only ~61 kb of actual network transfer to load the article (due to brotli encoding).

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by sva_ on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:37AM (#46495655)

For me in Firefox it only loads the article's HTML (50-70kb) and the favicon (7kb).

Are you sure it isn't some addon you have?

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by pandemic_region on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:43AM (#46495949)

It could be the cookie banner appearing.

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by IanCal on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:19AM (#46497131)

It is, the content loads first, then the js for the cookie banner, then the favicon. If the js fails to load (I blocked the request as a test) the page loads just fine, it isn't blocked by that.

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by reddalo on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:54AM (#46497353)

I bet you're using uBlock Origin

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by zamadatix on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:56AM (#46498256)

The articles HTML is ~60 kb compressed and ~10x that uncompressed, which accounts for both apparent sizes.

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by iberator on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:33AM (#46495902)

The point is that it would still work if you block JS, CSS and graphics.

Check it out in lynx for example

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by atoav on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:54AM (#46496322)

Ever tried a TUI browser like lynx?

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