alt Hacker NewsI 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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sva_ • last Monday at 5:37 AM
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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iberator • last Monday at 6:33 AM
The point is that it would still work if you block JS, CSS and graphics.
Check it out in lynx for example
atoav • last Monday at 7:54 AM
Ever tried a TUI browser like lynx?
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).