For what one person's opinion is worth, I quite like the look of old-style text-and-hyperlink websites, so long as there's something interesting to read on them.
A canonical example: http://bactra.org/
A canonical example: http://bactra.org/
https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
It also includes 'lite' variants of some news sites and such. A great reprieve from the heavy, popup and overlay infested web.
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/