"Slow" comes in three flavors: a slow network, a heavy page, or a browser under resource pressure. Telling them apart is easy: check whether other sites are slow too, and look at network and memory use.
Identify which kind of slow
Open the browser task manager and look at network and memory. If the network is saturated but pages are still slow, the page is heavy; if memory and CPU are both high, the browser is under pressure.
- All sites slow: network or DNS
- One site slow: the site or the route to it
- High memory: too many tabs or heavy extensions
- High CPU: heavy scripts or animation
Network-side fixes
Switch to a faster DNS, turn off proxies you do not need, and check whether downloads or cloud sync are eating bandwidth.
- Switch to a public DNS
- Disable idle VPNs and proxies
- Pause background downloads and sync
- Move to a less crowded Wi-Fi band
Browser-side fixes
Enable ad blocking to cut requests, let idle tabs sleep, trim extensions, and clear cache and site data periodically.
- Enable ad blocking to reduce requests
- Enable tab sleeping to free memory
- Disable or remove unused extensions
- Clear site data you no longer visit
FAQ
Does ad blocking actually make it faster?
Usually yes. Blocked resources are never downloaded, so request count and traffic drop and the first screen arrives sooner.
It felt slower right after clearing cache?
That is normal: static assets must be downloaded again on the first visit, and things return to normal from the second visit on.