Ghostery and website tracking, etc.

Jul 4, 2014 - PandoDaily - I just installed a tool which shows how popular websites are spying on me. The results are horrifying

When JavaScript is disabled, a website, especially a media-based site, loads considerably quicker. Instead of taking several seconds to load when JavaScript is enabled, the site will load in under a second with JavaScript disabled. And as long as the content of the article is displayed, that's all the matters.

If the JavaScript was used only to help the user, that would be okay. But a lot of the crap is ad-based, tracking-based, etc. Cruft.

Some of the JavaScript, however, is meant to improve the user experience, but too many sites are bogging themselves down with trying to create a native app-like experience in the browser. So on older machines, the heavy JavaScript sites use more CPU.

Take the ToledoBlade.com for example.