I can sit on a mobile connection under bad conditions, barely capable of pushing 10kb/s. But you know what? The raw article text isn't going to be more than those 10kb.
Anything exceeding that is fluff, and when you need to DL 5MB/s of webfonts and god knows what to read those 10kbs, something is horribly wrong.
Good presentation is good, I don't disagree with that, but when you go down that route, make sure that the actual content gets the priority in loading and rendering, and not fluff.
I can sit on a mobile connection under bad conditions, barely capable of pushing 10kb/s. But you know what? The raw article text isn't going to be more than those 10kb.
Anything exceeding that is fluff, and when you need to DL 5MB/s of webfonts and god knows what to read those 10kbs, something is horribly wrong.
Good presentation is good, I don't disagree with that, but when you go down that route, make sure that the actual content gets the priority in loading and rendering, and not fluff.