This website may be performant, but it's also fixed-width, and thus not the other kind of responsive. Almost unusable on my device.

When I was learning website design in the early oughts we were taught to make them 'liquid' to work on different width screens. So it was possible then, and without MBs of JS and CSS. Though there were fewer tools to do so. Tables became pseudo grid mode. I think I still prefer the simplicity of that era.

What device? Works fine on Safari iOS with the double tap to zoom.

On my phone. The line lengths are too long, so zooming in to get a reasonable font size means scrolling back and forth for each line. And clicking links is a shot in the dark.

Huh. The only slight irritation I notice is the scrolling isn’t soft-locked to just up and down so when I scroll it does a bit of horizontal drift.

You must have good eyes then, or more likely you have a really big phone.

Even with the giant bundles of BS/JS downloaded, modern websites still load faster than they did in the 90s on my 56k modem.

The Dr. Quinn website takes 6 seconds to DOMContentLoaded on a 56k connection. The CNN website (my goto for bloated webpages) takes only 1 second on my "high speed" 40 Mb/s connection.

As for responsive. A lot old websites were built specifically for 800x600 displays, and look janky or are a tiny square in the corner on larger resolutions.