A list of awesome lightweight websites without all the bloat
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A list of lightweight [versions of] websites without all the bloat. Websites included include no, or very little JavaScript and are smaller than 1MB in size (usually smaller by a significant margin).

This list is still young and I would like to hear your feedback on what should or should not be included, please submit an issue or contribute to on-going discussions.

Add a website by reading CONTRIBUTING.md

Contents

News

  • CNN Lite - A lite version of CNN.com
  • NPR Text-Only - Text-only version of NPR.org
  • LevelNews - Independent news index
  • Pxlet - Lite index of various websites including Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot and more
  • SkimFeed - Tech News aggregator
  • Hackaday - Fresh Hacks Every Day from around the Internet
  • Reuters - A lite version of reuters.com
  • Techdirt Lite - Text-only version of techdirt.com
  • laarc - a tech mashup of Hacker News and Reddit by two long time fans of both forums
  • the Context- news website based on the information from Wikipedia Current Events Portal (News section), with occasional editorial content (Opinion section)
  • Skinny Guardian - The last 50 Guardian articles served in simple HTML, CSS and no javascript
  • Text-Only News - Simple news website with only text, no javascript

Social

  • Facebook - Basic mode of Facebook
  • Lobsters - A technology-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
  • Hacker News - A social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
  • Reddit - Reddit .compact view
  • Twitter - A faster, data friendly way to use Twitter
  • Tilde - not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages
  • Mataroa - Minimal blogging platform with export as first-class feature.

Other

  • Wikipedia - A free online encyclopedia with the aim to allow anyone to edit articles
  • Gmail Basic - Basic HTML version of Gmail
  • Gmail Mobile - Minimalistic mobile version of Gmail
  • Project Gutenberg - A volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works
  • Listen Paradise - A minimalistic app to listen Radio Paradise.
  • Afrika Radyo - An internet radio with emphasis on African and middle-eastern music.
  • Super Simple Lorem Ipsum - Super simple lorem ipsum
  • DuckDuckGo - A lite version of duckduckgo.com
  • wiby - A search engine for lightweight websites
  • Conventional Commits - The Conventional Commits specification proposes introducing a standardized lightweight convention on top of commit messages.
  • Txti - A simple app that lets you create fast web pages for everybody
  • Gnod - A set of AI-powered tools for discovering new things
  • 10kb Gallery - art within 10,000 bytes
  • qwsx - URL Shortener
  • emuparadise - Place to download and play old-school retro video games
  • tucktools - Free online tools - Needs JavaScript to work
  • privado - A lightweight search engine that doesn't IP address or searches in any identifiable way

License

CC0

To the extent possible under law, Mahdi Dibaiee has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.