With Hurricane Milton looming, NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth way to reach residents

This morning, loading the main WUSF.org homepage required 8.5 megabytes of bandwidth. The text-only page needed only 21.5 kilobytes. That's a difference of about 400×.

NPR rolled out the feature Wednesday "to support [stations'] ongoing efforts to serve their local communities with critical information, especially during crises or emergencies," said Jonathan Butler, NPR's director of station digital solutions, in a statement.

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