I've had my MacBook Air for about six months. Now all the browsers are extremely sluggish — sometimes taking minutes to load a web page that would have used to take under one second to load back when everything was new.
Questions
- What's causing the sluggish browser response? (Most likely.)
- What is a stepwise procedure to troubleshoot and/or fix it?
Configuration Details
- O/S: OS X Yosemite 10.10.5
- Memory: 4 GB @ 1600MHz DDR
- Browsers: Safari, Chrome
Best Answer
Changing my DNS settings to Google's DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 seems to help a little but might not be the comprehensive solution I was looking for.
Procedure
Bottom toolbar > System Preferences > Network > Advanced... > DNS > + > 8.8.8.8 > + > 8.8.4.4
Or, via command line:
The procedure is detailed here.