I broke out the old iPad 1 the other day and about the only thing I’ve used it for in months is FR because all the modern sites like Breitbart have so much crap that’s Safari crashes. But man it sure was nice to read large fonts without using the 2008 MacBook Pro 17” which I still use for side work. Not nearly the resolution of a Retina display but still nice. I might have to pick up one of these budget models and use it for books, surfing the web, security camera viewing and as a smaller streaming display when the wife has occupied the big screen. The old one won’t load the newer apps that I usually use anyway. The large phones (which are entirely too big in my opinion) must have cut into the market for iPads.
The old iPad one will have problems with modern sites. Some of them need hardware the iPad 1 lacks or it stalls trying to handle the security. See if you can install an alternative browser such as Chrome on it.