Unfortunately a lot of those links aren't really "lite". They might be better than the site's main pages but I don't think they're equivalent to NPR's lite page for instance.
That's not the fault of that list maintainer, some sites may have bloated up their "lite" pages since they were added. I used to have several lite news sites bookmarked from back in the GPRS days that no longer exist.
I don't miss WAP as a technology but I also definitely miss WAP and WAP-like sites on mobile. So many "lite" sites have gone full JavaScript bloat and are lite only in name. It's is not difficult to add some minimal CSS for branding and just spit out static HTML.
I find the circular reasoning or bloat amusing. "We needs ads to pay for the resource usage of adding our ads!".
That's not the fault of that list maintainer, some sites may have bloated up their "lite" pages since they were added. I used to have several lite news sites bookmarked from back in the GPRS days that no longer exist.