It doesn't really function without JavaScript enabled, either. The page loads, but the article is cut off, and graphics/logos don't seem to load completely. There is evidently a lot of JavaScript doing the heavy lifting to display ordinarily static content here.

Not that this is uncommon, as we approach 2020...

Had no effect on Firefox for me, I opened Firefox's task manager and it said the site was using very little resources.

My mileage may vary from yours since I use Ublock and uMatrix and I also block add sites with my own DNS server.