For me in Firefox it only loads the article's HTML (50-70kb) and the favicon (7kb).

Are you sure it isn't some addon you have?

zamadatix 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The articles HTML is ~60 kb compressed and ~10x that uncompressed, which accounts for both apparent sizes.

reddalo 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I bet you're using uBlock Origin

It could be the cookie banner appearing.

	▲	IanCal 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It is, the content loads first, then the js for the cookie banner, then the favicon. If the js fails to load (I blocked the request as a test) the page loads just fine, it isn't blocked by that.