I hate web bloat. A quick visit to to the New York Times homepage requires 394 HTTP requests, 5.5Mb to download, and took my browser many seconds render. This is insanity. https://www.allthink.com/a/ufile/1000002/ss-nyt-load.png The New York Times is not alone . Every major news website I could think of requires at least 100 requests to load. Even non-news, signup-for-my-service startup websites r