> Every page i download, every news article, easily 2-3MB,... That's typical, and completely insane. I run an image-heavy (but ad-free) blog using standard Wo

> Every page i download, every news article, easily 2-3MB,... That's typical, and completely insane. I run an image-heavy (but ad-free) blog using standard Wordpress, and the 8000-word homepage is around 1.1 MB on first load. I would never use a cellular data connection without aggressive ad- and tracker-blocking. (FWIW, HN seems to have about 3x markup overhead, 2x compressed, for a typical comment page, which is not that bad.)