When an article on the web is boring, chances are the author did not prepare it for reading on the web. Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for June 1996, *Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace* ¹ explains that you should start with the conclusion, followed by some supporting observations, ending with the background.
You can fix this by **scrolling to the end of the article and reading it backwards**, paging up as you go.