&quot;Useful&quot; doesn&#x27;t need to mean bloated. You seem to miss the point that many websites these days are bloated even basic articles. We don&#x27;t need a V8 engine and oversize tyres to go buy milk and bread.<p>You&#x27;re forgetting that mobile devices quickly run out of cache memory. This includes iPads. You might visit a news site once every few days, but quite often the same resources need downloading again and again because your iPad has not kept them in cache memory because it ran out already. Desktop browsers have a lot more capacity to keep web resources cached.<p>Not only that, but RAM memory is also limited on mobile devices. Forget about expecting multiple websites to remain in memory across numerous tabs. My iPad3 can pretty much handle only one tab open. If I switch tabs to another website, then switch back, the whole page loads again. A less bloated web would help this issue.<p>And then there&#x27;s accessibility for low-speed areas. Did you even read the article?