It is a revelation how quickly some sites will load when you turn off JS, and by extension much of the modern web. I mean, really, really quick, as you avoid the blocking of third-party services, which is quite common these days.
It does also highlight how many sites actually depend on large numbers of external sites for basic functions on their own site.
As an example - a site would not load at all, because it was trying to load dogshit like Disqus. Sigh!
That's funny, because in Third-Party JavaScript written by folks from Disqus, they partially explain the lengths they went to so that they didn't disrupt the page loading. Of course, in turn Disqus does have to protect itself from the page using iframes, so there's room for junk in both directions. It's perhaps amazing the web works as well as it does, all tangled up across domains.
Hence the point of this image-rendering proxy. I'd be more interested in a proxy that does the reverse -- strip websites down to bare blue links on grey by any means necessary, including OCR of images. That could be fun. For a few minutes. ;-)
It does also highlight how many sites actually depend on large numbers of external sites for basic functions on their own site.
As an example - a site would not load at all, because it was trying to load dogshit like Disqus. Sigh!