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Posted in Google on 25 June 2011 71 comments
I thought what is wrong recently because more than 50% of websites I visited are loading
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very slow, in fact sometimes they are not being loaded at all. Today, I finally realized that
the problem is with Google Chrome browser because when I tried surfing using Firefox,
they can be loaded in seconds. Of course, I am a Google lover so I wouldn’t switch my
default browser just because of this. Then, I started to play around with Chrome’s
preferences until I finally found a fix.
The main cause : DNS Pre-Fetching Feature
For old version of Chrome, the setting is located at Preferences > Under The Hood.
For newer version of Chrome, the setting is located at Settings > Show Advanced Settings >
Privacy
Now, look for a checkbox called “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance” or
“Predict network actions to improve page load performance“. Or similar.
Everyone including me would have ticked this checkbox because it seems to bring only benefits and
it sounds promising. However, it is not the case here, while I still cannot explain why this is
happening, just untick the checkbox to bring your Chrome back to its speedy glory.
In my Google Chrome for Mac, the settings is actually called “Predict network actions to improve
page load performance“. Therefore, just untick any similar checkbox.
Hope this helps.
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Ashwini K Pandey says:
June 29, 2011 at 11:35 PM
I think you have hit the nail…. at least in my case… One can measure my level of frustration and
disappointments by the fact that I had to switch my default browser because of the drag I had been
experiencing off-late. All other attempts (clearing cache, cookies etc.) did not work for me. But who
knew that a feature purported to make the browsing experience faster may be the primary reason
behind the drag experienced. Its the least suspected place one would look for obvious reasons.
Thank you very much…. you literally saved me…
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Ashwini K Pandey says:
June 29, 2011 at 11:42 PM
I think you have hit the nail…. at least in my case… One can measure my level of frustration and
disappointments by the fact that I had to switch my default browser because of the drag I had been
experiencing off-late. All other attempts (clearing cache, cookies etc.) did not work for me. But who
knew that a feature purported to make the browsing experience faster may be the primary reason
behind the drag experienced. Its the least suspected place one would look for obvious reasons.
Thank you very much…. you literally saved me…
Edit: Another observation… This drag I experience only on Windows XP at workplace. I don’t
experience at all on Ubuntu desktop with this feature enabled. Rather, it works on Ubuntu always as
a fresh install… i.e., blazingly fast and snappy. My wife also does not complain about it being slow
on her mac. I may have to recheck whether she has this feature enabled or not. I suppose she has
since setting up features, services is my job. I have been using this feature when it was available as
experimentatin under “about”flags”. I did not notice such slowdown before… Only in the last
couple of releases.
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zen says:
June 29, 2011 at 11:58 PM
I have a similar case as yours here but in different OS. I only experiences this problem in my Mac,
not in my windows. Also, I have been using chrome for about 1 year+ and I only encountered this
problem lately, probably last couple of releases as you said.
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Cheers.
Linda Baute says:
August 17, 2011 at 2:05 AM
That seems to do it for me!
Thanks.
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Sydney says:
August 18, 2011 at 4:48 AM
Recently Google Chrome has been painfully slow. I’ve been trying to find out how to fix it. I kept
hearing uncheck DNS something. I couldn’t find that. But then I found this site and tried what you
said to do and Chrome is still extremely slow. What should I do?
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hary says:
September 7, 2011 at 8:09 PM
no good, still slow
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vanessa says:
September 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM
I just tried it and it helped pretty significantly! Even Google Maps is working again, which was one
of the most molasses of the bunch!
Thank you!
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Lolita Sweet December says:
October 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM
THANKS
This actually worked. I would restart my computer and open up google chorme and within seconds
it would already stall; which I thought was (bleeping) ridiculous
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But I deselected what you mentioned; and it worked.
…I will pass this information on…
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Lolita Sweet December says:
October 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM
THANKS
This actually worked. I would restart my computer and open up google chorme and within seconds
it would already stall; which I thought was (bleeping) ridiculous
But I deselected what you mentioned; and it worked.
…I will pass this information on…
_______________
Google is also my ultimate favorite tooand they are revolutinary with their apps
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Bobs says:
December 19, 2011 at 3:22 PM
This is a really inetllgeint way to answer the question.
Andrew says:
October 21, 2011 at 3:23 AM
Wow, thank you so much, I thought it was my computer, this has been bothering me for a while but
I have been too lazy to find a solution, thank you again!.
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ANdrae says:
November 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Max says:
November 14, 2011 at 5:41 AM
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Thank U !!!! :)
It fixed my issues straight away, finally someone who had the correct answer.Many many thanks !
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Tom says:
November 14, 2011 at 11:58 PM
Thank you!
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Andrew says:
November 29, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Worked like a charm. Thank you. I was losing my mind trying to figure out why some pages were
loading so incredibly slowly. Since making the change it’s been a night and day difference.
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bossi says:
December 14, 2011 at 12:23 PM
someone could be more specific? where is this “use dns prefetching. . .”
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Saysha Broussard says:
July 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM
click on the wrench at the top right corner
go to settings
go all the way down to show advanced settings
under PRIVACY, you will see this: Predict network actions to improve page load performance
UNCHECK THAT AND THAT SHOULD DO IT!! GOOD LUCK! EMAIL ME @
[email protected] and let me know what your outcome is! :D
JFo says:
December 30, 2011 at 11:06 PM
THANNNNNNNNNNNNNK U! working much better
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João Paulo says:
January 17, 2012 at 2:29 AM
It works!! Thanks a lot!
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Sarkasmi says:
January 25, 2012 at 12:41 AM
For a while I had been blaming my internet connection about being INSANELY slow.. even
sending a few lines of text as a comment to youtube, any forum etc. took forever and multiple times
it just failed to load, ofcourse deleting what I had just wrote.
Also youtube videos and even single pictures took forever to load.
Checked that box off, re-booted chrome and all the 8 pages I had open just snapped open
immediately.
INSTANTLY seeing a huge difference.
So THANK YOU! :)
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Josh Rachner says:
February 14, 2012 at 2:10 AM
I have a WP site that was loading slowly in Chrome, but not other browsers. I made this change and
the site instantly loads in Chrome. Thanks for the insight.
Couple questions though:
- Has this setting always bee enabled by default? I have never noticed this slow loading until a week
ago (and specifically for a WP site, not other sites)
- Is there any other option for WP, rather than this setting? For example, is there an applicationlevel fix, i.e. Caching?
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James says:
May 31, 2012 at 4:01 AM
It is set as default, because in my case I had never explored the settings of my Google Chrome, not
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until this time after reading this article.
It does not work for me, but I’ll try restarting my laptop if it will work.
Kevin says:
February 14, 2012 at 1:15 PM
This worked for me with latest version of Chrome and no extensions. Thanks!
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H.en says:
February 18, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Definitely noticed a difference, thanks
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William Cleave Drummond II says:
March 2, 2012 at 3:57 AM
Thanks for the information. My Chrome just started getting sluggish as well. Its amazing that
something that is supposed to speed up your browser does the exact opposite. Just like Congress at
times.
Hope Google starts seeing all the complaints and makes a change to that function. Just wish they
would use standards with CSS, I hate styling for several browsers at once because they wont look at
the style the same way.
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Danish says:
March 2, 2012 at 5:08 AM
Hey thanks for the tip :)
You said you are not sure what the reason is, do you think it could be your ISP ? As you might
know the primary DNServer is by default set to your ISP’s server. I would ask just a simple
question, is your ISP one of the leading ones or a small time provider ? If you are interested I
would discuss this further.
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March 2, 2012 at 10:51 PM
This has been driving me CRAZY – THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
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Si says:
March 12, 2012 at 3:08 AM
You are a star, this has worked, whipee! Thank you so much.
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TI says:
March 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Been having this load problem for weeks! So frustrating! And then I found this site and Google is
loading really fast. Thanks so much, refreshing to find clear instructions and see great results.
Thank you
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dango says:
March 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Thanks! Worked a treat…I was thinking it was my computer as well, but after applying your tip I’m
working fine and fast again!
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juan cruz says:
March 31, 2012 at 11:43 PM
Thank you !!!! It works great now.
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Josh says:
April 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Just means your ISP was update domain records, so your pre-fetching was out of date.
Once that’s done your checkbox will have SLOWED your browsing back down.
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Prefetching is normally a good thing, except for the rare data update periods.
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Joy says:
June 11, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Hi,I still have a problem with my Google Chrome. I have already unchecked The stuff that you
mentioned it doesn’t work. My internet connection is working fast and fine and I’ve already cleared
my history, cache. I have even reinstalled my Chrome but it still doesn’t work. I’m kind of
frustrated.
What should I do? Thanks!
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maggie valentine says:
June 28, 2012 at 5:46 AM
I was so hopeful…did everything you said. even shut down and reloaded. Emptied cache and
cookies again the regular way. When I open Chrome..’loading issues’ comes right up.I can open a
new tab and get going but ‘loading issues’keeps running in the back.Do you know what I am doing
wrong ? Everyone else seems to have great results!
Paul says:
June 15, 2012 at 3:10 AM
Thank you! Two minutes to load every web page on a brand new MacBook was driving me nuts!!
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