[daniel1212]

"We shouldn't change. But we're a dinosaur. At the same time that's a good thing. We are not really on anybody's radar."

And for those who use Free Republic to keep informed about relevant Christian and conservative news, looks what your computer or mobile device is missing in Network Requests (in Firefox hit the F12 key, then the Network tab, and reload the page you want to test). Screen shots were taken after about a minute or less, sometimes with a little scrolling. Only 4 for FR while up to over 500 for some stories on GP and most load at least 100:

FR latest articles (see @ requests on top right: click on image to enlarge) :

Versus

Often sites are still loading and keep on wanting to load something that my mvps host file will not let.

[dfwgator]

Less is more.

[Pollard]

One of my websites and it runs on a modern Content Management System. It's not Wordpress but I can do the same with a WP site.

Very few resources loading, mostly images yet I don't have to type in html to create a post. That's the gtmetrix score. Try plugging FR into gtmetrix right now and it won't be able to run the test because the ssl/https certificate isn't right. (An error occurred fetching the page: HTTPS error: certificate verify failed)

I've run FR on gtmetrix before and it's no better than my site. My sites all look good on any screen size. They all score high for speed even though I recently swapped to super cheap hosting on slow servers. There is a happy medium where you can get what's considered basic features with no bloat. Mobile friendly is just some CSS code and an editor with text formatting buttons can be plugged into any system, even an old website written in Perl.