The mobile site is 'small'. The text and menu options read too small and the site doesn't offer the ability to alter the font size. The site doesn't seem to be a responsive design that would shift the elements on the page depending on the width or the zoom level of the browser.

The app is a cleaner design than the mobile site and allows for better navigation and easy to read articles.

With the amount of information that their home page needs to communicate and variety of types of content it holds, it is remarkably uncluttered.

It probably could hold less information and still be effective displaying the relevant stories of the day. That being said, the Times is a business and a user seeing links to articles that aren't normally appealing cause users to stick around the site.

Gotta make that money, maan...