You’d think “it’s easier for many phones to render PUBG than modern websites” would be an industry-wide wake-up call, but. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg
Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG

Danluu benchmarks numerous websites and discusses their impact on older and/or weaker hardware

Tom's Hardware

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> "As the testing above shows, some of the most brutally intensive websites include ... and basically every major social media platform."

I take exception to that. Mastodon loads pretty damn quickly, and it's the only social media site _I_ use daily.

But yes, that article is pretty accurate, and most large players will respond "just use our mobile app instead" (with the unspoken part being 'so we can track and sell literally everything you do, visit, and say')