It tells me that the page in question otherwise executes the scripts from the following sites:
https://cdn.accelerator.arsdev.net/
https://player.cnevids.com/
https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/
https://segment-data.zqtk.net/
https://js-sec.indexww.com/
https://cdn.yldbt.com/
https://www.googletagservices.com/
https://cdn.optimizely.com/
https://assets.adobedtm.com/
https://d1z2jf7jlzjs58.cloudfront.net/
https://pixel.condenastdigital.com/
https://tag.bounceexchange.com/
https://cdn.optimizely.com/
https://assets.adobedtm.com/
If the New Yorker would use the proper format of SVG here (or even PNG — the diagrams are all JPEGs), they would likely compress even better; most of them also include a ton of whitespace either side of the actual image. Testing one of them, the size falls by ~28% if you correct for all this.
On mobile, where my connection is less reliable, I also have a strong distaste for lazy loading: it squanders all the time available from when I started reading until now. Then, when the image is finally in view, then we start the long haul of fetching it, and risk that I've again lost good connectivity.