I notice that at times when I can't download other webpages (e.g., newspapers) or they download and keep freezing and IE tries to "recover" the webpage, at the same time I have no trouble loading the forum.koohii.com webpage.

Does anyone know what's different about the forum.koohii.com webpage that makes it download quickly at the same time other websites keep freezing?? If I knew that would help me troubleshoot what's wrong when I try to download other webpages. Thanks.

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Potentially ads if you don't use adblocker.

Html, Javascript and CSS is the tip of the iceberg. Most news sites you connect to have tens times as much requests than this simple forum, all kinds of requests to third parties. These requests can stall the page load when they are too many, or not properly optimized in the page.

Try something like AdBlock Plus, or uBlock, and then selectively enable on ads on websites you want to support.

There are even adblocker now for iOS that are said to speed up page load dramatically.

Related reading:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/...ghter-ads/

The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites

Thanks!

I went into Tools-Internet Options-Security and disabled active scripting and Java applets. It made a huge difference! Now all websites seem to download in a split second. However on one particular newspaper website some articles are just blank spaces but I can live with that.

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Disabling Javascript will stop a lot of useful functionality from working. I'd recommend use an ad block extension instead, this selectively blocks third party and javascript code that actually slows down the page.

ファブリス Wrote:Disabling Javascript will stop a lot of useful functionality from working. I'd recommend use an ad block extension instead, this selectively blocks third party and javascript code that actually slows down the page.

Thanks.