I think we have all been in a situation where a website or web page that you are trying to access does not respond at all to the request, or only slowly so that it almost becomes unbearable to wait.
But there are things that you can do that may speed up the loading of the web pages you are interested in, and some may even help you if a website is down or unavailable in your location.
Keep in mind though that you can't go faster than the maximum speed of your Internet connection or that of the server the site is hosted on. If that is already maxed out, for instance by a download in the background, you may need to temporarily pause those activities to access the sites you are interested in.
Lets take a look at some of the options that you have to speed up access to a website that you want to load in your browser.
Sometimes, a website loads slowly because of items that it loads that are not really relevant to the actual content that you want to access.
This can be advertisement, widgets that load information from other websites, or a photo gallery that is displayed on every page of the website. The following browser tools can improve the loading time in various ways if that is the case.
Sometimes all you need to do is make changes to certain browser settings to speed things up. Lets take a look at some of the options:
Services allow you to make use of some of the options that browser extensions offer without installing anything in the browser first. This can be useful in situations where you simply are not allowed to install add-ons to a browser, or where you prefer not to do so.
Did I miss a service, feature or tip that you make use of when you are in a situation like this? Lets discuss additional options in the comments.
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Usually slow internet connection is because of simple problems:
1. Too many loading/working applications
2. There are not enough RAM and CPU speed is slow
3. Spyware,trojans and etc is slowing down the system (nowadays there are a lot of redirect, viruses)
It’s the main problems of slow internet connections, I do an investigation in this area on my presentation one year ago..
@Elize,
0. OR In some countries like Iran, the Internet is slow itself …
Can someone help me? my internet speed is pretty fast but i have tried to access this one site called zobe to which im a daily user and its taking hours! i tried the methods above but did not work,what do i do?
My experience after fixing a few slow connections. If you are using Internet Explorer, to many TOOLBARS. Get rid of them by disabling add-ons or resetting IE altogether.
Hi Martin,
there is also a great Firefox add-on called ‘speed dns’ which I think does the job v.well.
cheers.
thanks buddy, its working……..
nice post..
wierd i had the same problem i was wonder y u so stupid
Wow, the ad blocker in 1. Browser Tools fixed the problem with my Win 7 IE9 local computer. I thought the problem was just more MS junk or cheap Wal-Mart computers.
Thanks it’s been forever since I saw a fast page load.
Check out this performance checker tool:
The Summit eCommerce Performance Checker helps you understand how much money your site is losing every day. By running a variety of tests across your site we’re able to identify what is impacting the speed and therefore the performance of your website and provide a detailed report on why this is occurring.
http://www.summit.co.uk/performance-checker/
You just saved my laptop’s life! I was about to throw it out the window, I was so frustrated. But the AdBlocker has my pages loading faster than ever! Amazing what a difference it makes! My laptop and I thank you! :)
Which tools do you guys use to test your page speed with? So far I’ve found http://www.webpagetest.org and http://www.giftofspeed.com but I’m looking for more options. Anyone knows of another good test tool? Thanks!
This works great on the Daily Mail website, which became unusable for me. Now that I installed this extension, the pages load instantly! Thanks for the tip!
wow, amazing, I was having hard time reading Daily Mail, the page took ages to load. I did the Adblock download and is amazingly quick now. Thank you!!
I tried everything for a month and a half to load websites quickly, and then two days ago I tried this: Go to Menu, Preferences, Tabs. Check “When I open a new link, check it immediately.” It worked! It was THAT simple!