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24 alternatives to I ranked news websites by speed
I've been working on building "the fastest news website" for a few reasons: 1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines. 2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript. 3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc. I put together the speed page at https://legiblenews.com/speed to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it's also…
Legible News is a text-only news website featuring major headlines designed for fast loading without JavaScript or heavy images. It includes a speed ranking page comparing how quickly various news websites load. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I ranked news websites by speed launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Legible News▲78News that makes you smarter, no ads, no bloat, not breaking
2022 · legiblenews.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. I was inspired by so many other folks also longing for a return to the old web that I put together a service to scratch my own itch: An extremely fast headline aggregator done in 1990s style HTML. Sharing it with you all for those of you that also would enjoy this now esoteric style.
2022 · brutalist.report · its alternatives →
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One Minute News▲171This is a minimalist news digest site that helps readers understand the biggest news happening around the world in one minute. We work on this as a side project. So why are we doing this? Welp, I myself am a clickbait hater. Sometimes I click into a news story on Facebook just to find out the content is nothing as the title suggests. Born from pure hatred, we have created One Minute News to make sure every headline literally says what the content is about. This helps readers save tons of time filtering out unimportant news just by scanning through the honest headlines. So far, here are the…
Feb 2026 · oneminutenews.org · its alternatives →
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Unstack▲611The world's fastest free all-in-one website builder
2020 · elasticpath.com · its alternatives →
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I built a system that monitors ~200,000 news RSS feeds in near real-time and clusters related articles to show how stories spread across the web. It uses Snowflake’s Arctic model for embeddings and HNSW for fast similarity search. Each “story cluster” shows who published first, how fast it propagated, and how the narrative evolved as more outlets picked it up. Would love feedback on the architecture, scaling approach, and any ways to make the clusters more accurate or useful. Live demo: https://yandori.io/news-flow/
Nov 2025 · yandori.io · its alternatives →
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Instant Articles▲300Tool for creating fast, interactive articles on Facebook
2015 · facebook.com · its alternatives →
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Essential news headlines emailed to you daily or weekly
2024 · legiblenews.com · its alternatives →
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Monitor how fast your site is compared to your competitors
2015 · its alternatives →
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An honest to god, non-algorithmic reverse chrono list of tech news that passes my signal-to-noise tests, updated hourly. A lightweight a page design as I've been able to keep; simple, clean, fast. No commercial features or aspirations - this is a passion project, something I've been fooling around with on and off for decades. There's a "Top" view too with an LLM edited front page & summary, and categorized views for a large number of topics - see the Directory. A few more buried features to explore, but the fundamental use case is pop in, scan, exit - fast and concise. Your feedback would be…
2025 · deadstack.net · its alternatives →
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Ad-Free News Browser for NYTimes, WSJ, Bloomberg, and more
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Make a website with AI in seconds for $1
2023 · parking.onamae.com · its alternatives →
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No nonsense video news in 2 minutes or less
2015 · scrippsnews.com · its alternatives →
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New tab with top headlines from multiple sources
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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The fastest international video news online
2025 · moving-news.com · its alternatives →
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The world's fastest business website builder
2014 · justaddcontent.com · its alternatives →
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newsfeed for busy web developers
2025 · lessnews.dev · its alternatives →
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I'd love any comments, suggestions or critiques on Newsfeedy (www.newsfeedy.com). It gathers trending topics from Twitter and Google and fetches news stories about them, and displays supplementary info from Twitter and Reddit. I originally created it for myself as a way to quickly catch up on breaking news, and a friend suggested it might be useful for others too. I know it's not groundbreaking, it's just a simple tool that saves 3 seconds of your life. And yes, I know that it's not very shiny. Thanks!
2011 · its alternatives →
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