You can easily do a very simple test yourself to see whether (and in which cases) this is worthwhile:
In your browser, open dev tools, go to the network tab and enable throttling. For fun, set it all the way down to GPRS speed.
Next, refresh that blog, you'll nearly instantly see the web page.
Then, refresh the HN home page, quite quickly, you'll see the list of articles in a bare-ish HTML page and a little later it becomes pretty when the CSS is loaded.
Finally, open any modern news site, since a news site is supposedly text-centric, it should be a fair comparison. I picked CNBC and it took 30 seconds for the first text to become readable.
I live in a country with ubiquitous broadband and near full coverage of 4/5G mobile internet, so for my country, this is a non-issue. Because of this, one of our most popular news sites takes nearly a minute to become readable at GPRS speeds. When I visit more rural areas in other European countries, this leads to me being unable to visit most web sites that were made for my country and it's extremely frustrating. Especially if you're in a bind and quickly want to find some information, because Google also takes ages to load over slow internet and is nearly unusable (and so is DDG, in case you want to try an alternative).
In your browser, open dev tools, go to the network tab and enable throttling. For fun, set it all the way down to GPRS speed.
Next, refresh that blog, you'll nearly instantly see the web page.
Then, refresh the HN home page, quite quickly, you'll see the list of articles in a bare-ish HTML page and a little later it becomes pretty when the CSS is loaded.
Finally, open any modern news site, since a news site is supposedly text-centric, it should be a fair comparison. I picked CNBC and it took 30 seconds for the first text to become readable.
I live in a country with ubiquitous broadband and near full coverage of 4/5G mobile internet, so for my country, this is a non-issue. Because of this, one of our most popular news sites takes nearly a minute to become readable at GPRS speeds. When I visit more rural areas in other European countries, this leads to me being unable to visit most web sites that were made for my country and it's extremely frustrating. Especially if you're in a bind and quickly want to find some information, because Google also takes ages to load over slow internet and is nearly unusable (and so is DDG, in case you want to try an alternative).