[rspeer]

Man, I remember when 33.6kbps was perfectly acceptable for participating in sites like Slashdot.

I bet websites could provide appropriately low-bandwidth versions more easily than they could be vetted by Facebook's walled garden.

[jags-v]

yep. Most of the sites are heavy because of tracking & user analytics part of which make make a huge chunk of the data download( pixel tracking , etc.)