@[email protected] The website seems to demand massive HTTP references to both WaPo and third party sites - so loading it very much depends on a large number of simultaneous TCP connections, something that is not allowed by the old Chromebook.

Just now I loaded the WaPo website on a vastly more powerful Macbook that can handle gobs of simultaneous TCP connections and it still took the WaPo website layout perhaps ten seconds to fully settle down. I just turned on the browser developer tool to show the network connections and watched the display scroll connection attempts - so many that it looked like the waterfall display in a Matrix movie.

I’ve seen the WaPo website stop cold when some 3rd party trackers (or DNS lookups) become slow or non-responsive.

(On this Macbook I short-circuit everything to Google’s trackers, which greatly speeds up nearly every website, I can see that it is greatly speeding the WaPo load time as well.)