Web pages taking very long time to load

Question

About 50% of the time, webpages are taking a very long time to load in any browser on my desktop machine. In chrome, I eventually get the kill pages error. The other 50% of the time, they load very quickly as we have a pretty decent connection speed.

It's not the router or ethernet cable. I've tested out multiple wired and wireless devices and it only seems to occur with my desktop machine.

At idle, my Physical Memory usage is at about 34% and once a browser is open, it's at about 50%.

I've scanned my machine multiple times so I don't think it's a virus or any malware.

It's only began in the last two months.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what else might be causing this?

One interesting thing - it's never happened with uTorrent turned off, but it has and has not happened with uTorrent turned on.

Have you tried to start the browser (e.g. firefox) in Safe Mode, have you tried to disable all AddOns? — Leo Chapiro, Jan 07 '16 at 10:13
@duDE no I havn't tried Safe Mode. I have no add-ons or extensions at all for firefox and only a few extensions in Chrome, but I'll disable and uninstall them all and try that out, thanks. — Daft, Jan 07 '16 at 10:17
If it is only the first time that they load slow then it might be stuck on DNS lookups. — Hennes, Jan 07 '16 at 10:32
@Hennes no, it's sort of a constant thing. I can refresh or wait until one page loads and then open a few more tabs on with the same address and it's the same problem. — Daft, Jan 07 '16 at 10:54

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '16 at 12:11

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One interesting thing - it's never happened with uTorrent turned off, but it has and has not happened with uTorrent turned on.

Your GET requests are most likely getting queued behind large uploads from uT. With many residential connections you may have 20Mb down but only 1 or 2Mb upload, so having a P2P client running can cause sporadic issues. Set uTs upstream limit to 50% of your upstream bandwidth.

answered Jan 07 '16 at 12:11

Linef4ult

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I'll try that, thanks a lot. But I've 100mb down, can't remember off hand what I have up though. Regardless, I'll definitely test this out. – Daft Jan 07 '16 at 12:12
@Daft The other issue can be if the cable gateway provided by the ISP cant handle large numbers of simultaneous connections and starts to chug, not uncommon either. – Linef4ult Jan 07 '16 at 14:48
Cable getaway? I don't recognise that term. But it did start around the same time we we switched to a new ISP – Daft Jan 07 '16 at 14:50
Router + Modem = Home Gateway, "Cable Gateway" is kind of a butchering of the term that I shouldnt really have used. – Linef4ult Jan 07 '16 at 15:44
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This did the trick!! Much appreciated! I was preparing to throw my machine out the window – Daft Jan 08 '16 at 08:27

Web pages taking very long time to load

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