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Have you ever been in a part of the world where internet speeds were abysmal?

Yeah, but I moved out of Germany for other reasons.

Hey it's not so bad here. I can get edge when I climb to the tree in the backyard...

It is so fast and clean, I just set it as my duck keyworded search. I'm not on a search engine for the looks, but for the results. The faster I get them and the fewer things there are to distract the eye, the better for me.

The lite and HTML versions are identical in speed for me. If I had really slow internet though, maybe I’d see a difference.

The JS version is maybe a tiny bit slower, but honestly is about the same.

A guy at work made a no-frills search results viewer that was just a standard Windows UI ListView (table) window with one result per row. Best search page I ever saw, because you could see 40 results at a time instead of 10.

I imagine it would be handy on an absolutely abysmal connection or one with data limits.

The lite version reminds me of the original Google search results.

I use it day-to-day. No problem.

As a rule, when JS is not mandatory I block it.

I've used the lite version for years.