Ask HN: How to make browsing the web more 2G friendly?

I'm using the internet connection from my cell phone service, tethered for use with a laptop computer. The service is throttled to 2G speeds at the moment. What are some ways that I can make network throughput more streamlined to make navigating the web with 2G speeds more reasonable? Many desktop sites load very slow due to the multitude of files and hosts that it needs to get requests from. Sometimes there is no visible feedback for minutes. I feel like a "display of unstyled content" is reasonable for slower connections, because content is still king, not scripts. Also, I've been getting a lot of errors like timeout errors, and SPDY ping failures.