Cole Boudreau, a data scientist with CBC Digital, says the low bandwidth, text-only site means loading CBC pages will be faster. "It's about making sure that the news is accessible to all users," Boudreau said. Here's an example of the CBC Lite version of our website. The low bandwidth site is meant to bring text-based content to users in a low data usage format. CBC Lite offers trending and standard CBC section content in a text-only format, and lets people see more stories though embedded links.

Source: CBC News March 15, 2021 23:28 UTC