I'm using EWW Emacs browser for opening various remote pages(mostly documentation) which is very handy most of the time.
I'm still trying to understand why certain pages take 4-5-6+ seconds to be rendered in eww(which take <1s in Chrome, for comparison).
For my tasks, I only care about the loaded content - images and fancy styles are not needed.
Is there any simple way to speed it up? Like setting readable mode/disabling images before calling eww? If that's possible at all.
Update from a few weeks later
I made a few experiments and from what I found the biggest contributing factor in my case is when a page has lots of third-party fonts.
I wasn't able to find a way to disable font fetching in eww source code so probably true "text based" browser like w3m was a better solution in the first place.
Any clarification comments and answers are still very welcome.