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I do agree with you but I think one of the points being made is that The New York Times is basically a text-only portfolio and sits at 15MB.

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That the majority of that NYT homepage weight is in low-priority video does not lend much credence to it being a text-only site. On an iPhone 12, it's also a 14,000px tall site, chock full of content. The HTML document size alone nearly disqualifies it from being on this list.

It feels rather... pointless? to pick on a news organization's homepage for being bloated, and then gesture at some guy's 9kB portfolio saying "see! this is speed!"

do you really need to load 14,000px worth of content with no interaction? What if I just navigate away to the first article?

The Nytimes website with the exact same look and functionality could be well under 1MB easily.

NYT is bloated for a news site. That is the point. Even with just the news text, it is bloated. If simply the html is that big it is bloated. Period.

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