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I had a user mention that some sites are taking a long time to load. I took a look and it took a while to load for me as well.

We both use Chrome so I did test in IE and Firefox. Firefox and IE loaded the page right away. I then disabled any extensions in Chrome but Chrome is still slow.

The site in question is engineeringtoolbox.com. I noticed that it was taking a long time on any page hosted by google. For example, the site’s logo is hosted at http://docs.engineeringtoolbox.com/img/logo.gif but when doing a nslookup, I noticed that it had an alias to googleusercontent.com. It also has googleapis.com as an alias. Other components of the page that took time to load had googleapis.com in the url.

Any idea why this would be happening in Chrome? This was tested using Chrome Version 40.0.2214.115 m

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Have you updated Chrome, I know it’s a resource hog anyways.

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Yes the version I mentioned is the latest version.

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Could be Chrome’s cache. Chrome cache has no limit by default. I met up to 10 GB of millions of small files. Delete the cache and set its limit somewhere 8 – 64 MB.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]

“DiskCacheSize”=dword:00002000

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I will give the cache a try but using the developer tools, I disabled the cache and still had issues.

Weird is that it only seems to be happening with Google sites. Spiceworks for example loads fine.

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I think delete all cache/cookies/history/etc has fixed the problem.