Text Only & Lite Websites
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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
Art by Yuuta Toyoi aka 104uuu. Source : nitter
News
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If you can't find a link, it might be in the Dead section
(http Only)ABYZ News Links<br>is a directory of links to online news sources from around the world.Details<br>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 Warning : Kind of out of date with an http warning haha.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<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>318 B<br>487 B
NPR Text<br>National Public RadioDetails
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>5.93 kB<br>2.99 kB
News Waffle<br>News Gateway on the Gemini Protocol<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>12.35 kB<br>12.75 kB
The Guardian<br>Partial mirror through Gemini protocol<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>34.34 kB<br>35.81 kB
Magical Fish News<br>News page from Magical Fish<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size<br>Last Checked
Text<br>60 kB<br>62 kB<br>11-30-2025
Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
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CNN Lite<br>Cable News Network<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>253.80 kB<br>41.80 kB
CBC Lite<br>Canadian Broadcast Corporation<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size<br>Last Updated
Images Optional<br>9.21 kB<br>3.39 kB<br>12-01-2025
HRW Text<br>Human Rights Watch<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Images Optional<br>444.39 kB<br>146.21 kB
Skinny Guardian<br>The Guardian<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Main Headline Images Only<br>16.76 kB<br>7.19 kB
Harvard Law Review<br> , About Harvard Law Review<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>1.15 MB<br>495.42 kB
Phil Gyford’s Daily Edition of The Guardian<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Minimal Images<br>1.17 MB<br>1.05 MB
FOSS Phones<br>Free and Open Source Software Phone News<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>9.17 kB<br>6.75 kB
Indie web News<br>Community-curated list of articles relevant to the Indie Web.<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Aggregator<br>244.15 kB<br>246.21 kB
Yale Environment 360<br>Online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues.<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Has Images<br>2.05 MB<br>1.10 MB
Cambridge News Section<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Has Images<br>1.66 MB<br>793.24 kB
Science Daily<br>Your source for the latest research news<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Minimal Images<br>489 kb<br>132 kb
News Minimalist (A.I. Summaries)<br>All news ranked by significance. The full summaries are a paid service but they do link to to Wikipedia articles they are referencing.<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Minimal Images<br>1.97 MB<br>421 kb
News Minimalist News letter (A.I. Summaries)<br>The only newsletter proven to have only important news. Trusted by 10,000+ readers.<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Minimal Images<br>1.97 MB<br>421 KB
Anti War
Devoted to the cause of non-interventionism<br>Details<br>.. 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<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Minimal Images<br>289 kB<br>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<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Minimal Images<br>1.45 MB<br>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
Dead, Broken, Not Updated, Etcetera
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page : Mobile version is gone and just redirects to their main website
Neuters<br>Reuters
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>3.19 kb<br>2.39 kb
Japan Broadcast Corporations Main headlines in English<br>Details
Type<br>Page size<br>Download Size
Text<br>478.78 kB<br>165.38 kB
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/daily/k/ : NHK World News
https://lite.pbs.org/ : Good for PBS related stuff. News articles link to the original pbs.com...