That CNN website is great, except it still has a huge cookie banner. Looking at the cookies of the site, I think the only cookie it sets is that i clicked on the banner. Most of the size of the page is also related to the banner it seems.

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.

In the Netherlands the public broadcaster still publishes news through Teletekst:

https://tweakers.net/reviews/11700/hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-...

In terms of a standard, it would be nice if "reader mode" were standardized to request a text-only minimal formatting version of the site.

Using the lite subdomain is a great way to read all the subscriber articles as well. Was reminded of the lite site during some annoyingly aggressive A/B testing CNN was doing a few months back.

I miss RSS.

$ ssh teletekst.nl

Maybe there could be a service which translates any website into a trimmed-down text-only version.

Google also used to have a go app which they deprecated later on, while now i think about it what is the use of having a go app, if the websites which are shown in search results are not optimised for slower networks.

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

> https://wttr.in/

didnt load for me

I view every website as text-only

I can reformat the text any way I like

Well, there is RSS.

Thanks for sharing, i almost was not sure if the last part was sarcasm. Html itself was the standard, then when it got bloated we got rss. This seems like it’s not a problem of a lack of standards. It’s the company choosing not to promote it.

> great if there was some standard that allowed these to be easily found

Too bad Google sunset Chrome Flywheel (likely after AMP?): https://research.google/pubs/flywheel-googles-data-compressi...

Opera Mini Turbo was equally popular during 2G/Edge era.