About This Website

Mainly just trying to keep a list of lightweight, News, Sports, Weather, Search Engines, Cooking, Tech News, and Aggregator Websites.There's a bunch of other stuff to explore as well.

The goal is to keep page download sizes around 2 Megabytes or less, for the News, Sports, Weather, Cooking, & Tech News websites.

I test all page sizes using my browsers developer tools with caching disabled.

All news sites where tested and updated between 08-03-2025 & 12-01-2025

News

If you can't find a link, it might be in the Dead section

• (http Only)ABYZ News Links is a directory of links to online news sources from around the world.
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  Not a news site, but an easy way to look up all news papers in my area. Warning : Kind of out of date with an http warning haha.

  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	318 B	487 B

• NPR Text National Public Radio
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	5.93 kB	2.99 kB

• News Waffle News Gateway on the Gemini Protocol
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	12.35 kB	12.75 kB

• The Guardian Partial mirror through Gemini protocol
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	34.34 kB	35.81 kB

• Magical Fish News News page from Magical Fish
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  Type	Page size	Download Size	Last Checked
  Text	60 kB	62 kB	11-30-2025

• CNN Lite Cable News Network
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	253.80 kB	41.80 kB

• CBC Lite Canadian Broadcast Corporation
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  Type	Page size	Download Size	Last Updated
  Images Optional	9.21 kB	3.39 kB	12-01-2025

• HRW Text Human Rights Watch
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Images Optional	444.39 kB	146.21 kB

• Skinny Guardian The Guardian
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Main Headline Images Only	16.76 kB	7.19 kB

• Harvard Law Review  , About Harvard Law Review
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	1.15 MB	495.42 kB

• Phil Gyford’s Daily Edition of The Guardian
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	1.17 MB	1.05 MB

• FOSS Phones Free and Open Source Software Phone News
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	9.17 kB	6.75 kB

• Indie web News Community-curated list of articles relevant to the Indie Web.
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Aggregator	244.15 kB	246.21 kB

• Yale Environment 360 Online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues.
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Has Images	2.05 MB	1.10 MB

• Cambridge News Section
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Has Images	1.66 MB	793.24 kB

• Science Daily Your source for the latest research news
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	489 kb	132 kb

• News Minimalist (A.I. Summaries) All news ranked by significance. The full summaries are a paid service but they do link to to Wikipedia articles they are referencing.
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	1.97 MB	421 kb

• News Minimalist News letter (A.I. Summaries) The only newsletter proven to have only important news. Trusted by 10,000+ readers.
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	1.97 MB	421 KB

• Anti War Devoted to the cause of non-interventionism
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  .. and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism.

  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	289 kB	205 kB

• gopherpedia.com Gopher interface to Wikipedia
• Gemipedia
• wikipedia Wikipedia Main Page
• LegibleNews Legible News judiciously links off to Wikipedia articles that people can read to get more context behind an issue and learn stuff. (Paywall for extra features)
• News As FactsNews (from Wikipedia) and market data (from CNBC). Parses the current events deemed important by the open Wikipedia community and present them in the most accessible and readable format we can think of
• Wikipedia Current Event Summaries Portal
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	1.45 MB	435.21 kB

NOTE: If you have a local NPR public run news site, you can put /text to the end of the domain to view the text only version of the website (if it has one). You can also try putting a text. sub-domain before typing in the Top Level Domain.

Here are some examples : (I can't list all due to it being hundreds of website)

• wxxinews.org/text
• wrur.org/text
• wqcs.org/text
• bpr.org/text
• text.bpr.org

Text Only Websites That aren't lite

These websites are text only, but full of trackers, scripts, etcetera. Only lite with a properly configured adblocker

• Christian Science Monitor : Text Edition
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	6.27 MB	Between 1.75 & 2.0 MB

• Post Online Media: Lite Edition The main page is lite, but once you click on the articles there are a ton of ads and trackers.
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text	5.81 MB	4.25 MB

• Daily Mail: Text Edition Loads a ton of crap in the backround.
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Text		Doesn't stop loading

• Kagi News (A.I. Summaries) Kagi News distills thousands of world-wide news sources into one perfect daily briefing.
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	12.18 MB	10.12 MB

Some Other News Stuff

These are here either because they aren't exactly lite, i haven't categorized them, or their just oddballs that I find fun to read

• Collect Space News Space history and artifacts articles
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  Space history and artifacts articles

  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text & Images	158 kB	82 kB	12-01-2025

• Relief Web Informing humanitarians worldwide 24/7
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  ReliefWeb is the leading humanitarian information service provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). We deliver fast, reliable updates from 4,000+ sources, including NGOs, governments and research centers to the humanitarian community.

  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text & Images	5.18 MB	118 kB	12-01-2025

• Research Buzz News & Info about Search Engines
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  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text & Images	137 kB	143 kB	12-01-2025

• SEO Theory attempts to explain how systems and their processes interact
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  Algorithm analysis, Web community relationship analysis, SEO practices and techniques, industry news, etc.

  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text & Images	1.00 MB	987 kB	12-01-2025

• Soylent News is people
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  We are a volunteer-powered news aggregation site that deliver articles about technology, science, and general interest. We also host public discussion and utilize a powerful comment moderation system. This is an open-source, community-driven project and evolves based on the will of the community.

  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text (Mostly)	42 kB	58 kB	12-01-2025

• Unredacted National Security Archive Blog
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  An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.

  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text & Images	152 kB	155 kB	12-01-2025

• kidl.at Philiipines News Satire website
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  Kidlat News is a low-bandwidth, text-only news satire website, with a focus on Philippine news and current events. We may use the names and photos of public figures or actual businesses in our articles, but the stories themselves are invented. In all other cases, any similarity to actual persons, businesses or events is purely coincidental and unintentional.

  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text	3.03 kB	3.80 kB	12-01-2025

• Freedom Press
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  Protecting and defending press freedom when we need it most

  Type	Page size	Download Size	Date Checked
  Text & Images	1.97 MB	1.86 MB	12-01-2025

• NS Archive Doubled In Size Since The Last Test
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  	7.08 MB	3.27 MB

• Propublica
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  	8.62 MB	3.71 MB

• justice.gov/news
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  Text	2.97 MB	844.32 kB

• commerce.gov/news
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  	4.40 MB	1.81 MB

• cia.gov/the-world-factbook The CIA World Factbook
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  	6.55 MB	2.53 MB

• straightdope.com People ask questions. Cecil answered them. Homepage is small, but alot stuff runs in the backround after clicking articles
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  UBlock	4.38 MB	1.96 MB

• wtfhappenedin1971.com Interesting, but biased
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  	7.91 MB	6.69 MB

Sports

• Plain Text Sports
  
• All Sports Dedicated to NBA and Football (Soccer)
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  Type	Page size	Download Size
  Minimal Images	1.20 MB	224 kb

Weather

• wttr.in : ASCII Weather( Donate )
• weather.maniac.com/ Interface For weather.gov

Search

Read, Search Engines With Their Own Indexes, for more info on search engines.

• (HTTP) goosh.org Unix shell like interface for Google
• search.marginalia.nu Focuses on non-commercial content
• lite.duckduckgo.com Lite version of DDG
• wiby.me or wiby.org Focuses on non-commercial
• (SearXNG Instance) baresearch.org SearXNG : metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing info about its users
• searx.space More Searx Instances
• textise.net/ Converts pages into text through their search
• frogfind.com (http Only) DuckDuckGo for Vintage Computers
• SearchTweaks: Tools and utilities to make search better
• theoldnet.com ()
• oldavista - Great way to seach the wayback machine
• Directories
• curlie.org/ Strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web
• indieseek.xyz A human edited, Indieweb directory
• directory.joejenett.com i.webthings directory : Exploring the independent and noncommercial web ARCHIVES
• ooh.directory A place to find good blogs that interest you.
• list-me.com free non-elite website directory

Cooking

• Dotnom.com
• Foss.cooking A fork of the currently unmaintained Based.cooking.
• A Chinese Version of Foss.Cooking
• Every.SDF.org/US_ASCII/Comestibles/recipes
• Recipe Archive Index
• Grimgrains.com
• italiancook.ca
• Rav3ndust.xyz/recipes
• Vegan-Recipes.org/ (HTTP)Expired Cert
• (HTTP) Textfiles.com/food/
• (HTTP) Nomilk.com
• Mrbreakfast.com/ The homepage is light but once you click around there are a ton of ads.

Tech

• osnews.com
• Distrowatch : News and Open Source Releases
• Alterslash : the unofficialSlashdot digest
• Hckr News : a condensed version of Hacker News
• HackerWeb : a more accessible version ofHacker News
• View HN based on freshness
• hackyournews.com : Multi-source News Summarizer. Uses A.I.
• Lobsters : computing topics — centered around link collection and discussion
• Cyber Report : cyber security news in text format
• tildes.net :
• metafilter.com : Community Aggregator like HN. Not Tech but I'm not making a new section when it kinda fits in with the above links.
• privacytests.org
• lwn.net
• Bleeping Computer
• CPU World : CPU News (They blocked me for some reason??)
• Unix Digest : Articles (occasional rants) and tutorials about open source, BSD and GNU/Linux system administration, and programming
• TuxMachines
• Amiga Future News
• (HTTP) catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks : Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems

News Aggregators

I define aggregators as websites that link to other websites. Some aggregators will scrape headlines but load a stripped down version of the page on their website and some have a social aspect to them. Those won't be listed under this section.

• brutalist.report
• Simple Reader Mobile : Online news feed reader designed for mobile devices
• techurls.com : A nice aggregator. They have more in the menu
• Lenexia New : Our goal is to help you stay informed about current events and make it easy to access news from multiple perspectives.
• (HTTP) jimmyr.com Technology News Mashup
• biztoc.com/light A light version of the biztoc aggregator
• skimfeed.com/news : skimfeed news
• slowernews : curated news extracting relevant trends and some edge cases for borderline nerds
• Readspike : More news headlines condensed
• freshnews.org
• aldaily.com
• timef.com
• newsnow.co.uk/h/
• clone.fyi
• engineeringblogs.xyz
• zaqs.org/home.html
• drudgereport.com
• upstract.com : Aggregates ... the world lol. Surprisingly small for what it is
• spike.news
• New York Times Wire : Continuous stream of the latest articles published on NYTimes.com. Not TXT only or lite anymore.