I assume the pages have been optimized for reading on a phone screen (portrait orientation) which along with the gigantic amounts of cruft each page loads means there's almost no actual
information per page.
Screen capture from today
In the screen capture, there are 79 - seventy-nine - words of news story and about an acre of other stuff. It's not that most of the real estate is taken over by pointless stock photos (a problem on many other sites). In this case there's part of a real photo, two or three sidebars of other available content, a social media sharing widget that I can't work out how to minimize, a pop-up link to the video I skipped watching in case I want to share it with others (I don't, and I don't know how to get rid of the pop-up) and a banner along the top advertising yet more content, but this time in categories instead of titles.
And I dread to think what it'd look like without AdBlocker switched on!
79 words per page. I think I was doing better than that with Compuserve in 1989. Simply scrolling down enough screens to get the gist of the news story is wearing out my left-click mouse button.
Update:
Eh, this one's even worse.
No words in the news article visible for three screens down.
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