Idling on the New York Times's homepage without an adblocker in Firefox, Activity Monitor says the tab is using ~10% of one core of my cpu, and About:Performance says it's using ~200 MB of memory.
Now, I have a pretty fast CPU—a 4790K—and it wasn't that long ago that most computers had less than 200 MB of RAM total. And, you could read on those computers just fine.
On the other hand, if I repeat the same test with my Slack tab, I get 30% of CPU and 400 MB of RAM. Slack doesn't have ads, and IM clients are another thing that worked just fine 20 years ago.
I guess my point is, the web is bloated, and I'm not sure why we're harping on The Times.
Now, I have a pretty fast CPU—a 4790K—and it wasn't that long ago that most computers had less than 200 MB of RAM total. And, you could read on those computers just fine.
On the other hand, if I repeat the same test with my Slack tab, I get 30% of CPU and 400 MB of RAM. Slack doesn't have ads, and IM clients are another thing that worked just fine 20 years ago.
I guess my point is, the web is bloated, and I'm not sure why we're harping on The Times.