Not the person you replied to, but to add to the subject, just uBlock Origin on Chrome and the page loads in a second or two, with 11 elements blocked. If I also disable Javascript(1), it loads even faster, but the difference between the two is on the order of half a second, so minimal in practice.

((1) I use the Quick Javascript Switcher extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-s... )