Shared graphics card

forgotmyname

noscript is one of the first things i install. Some forum owners should try it also and wonder why their forum leads off to strange places sometimes..
(Dodgy advert space sold and resold it seems.)

It could be a nightmare for some users though, which of the 20 or so links do you allow facebook to process?

esuhl

Images on webpages should load pretty quickly even with integrated graphics.

As suggested above, check your internet speed and latency:
http://www.speedtest.net/

And maybe open up the Task Manager to see if there are any spikes in CPU or RAM usage.

You could also try these browser speed tests. For comparison, I've put my results on a ~8 year old Core i7 with a GeForce GTX 480 graphics card, running Firefox on Win7 x64.

http://www.speed-battle.com/speedtest_e.php (I get 820 on my PC)
http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/ (I get 2978 on my PC)

esuhl

forgotmyname wrote: »

noscript is one of the first things i install. Some forum owners should try it also and wonder why their forum leads off to strange places sometimes..
(Dodgy advert space sold and resold it seems.)

It could be a nightmare for some users though, which of the 20 or so links do you allow facebook to process?

If you want to be really anal about it (and, if you're using NoScript, why not?!), have a look at RequestPolicy. It filters the cross-site script execution that NoScript misses.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-gb/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/

I have a spare browser profile handy for when the manual whitelisting process gets too much. Or for if a "normal person" wants to use my PC!

poppellerant

Try installing uBlock Origin in Firefox. After recommending this to friends, they are always amazed how much faster web pages load and the lack of adverts just puts the icing on the cake.

Have you ran a speedtest recently? I use Speedtest.net. What package do you have with your ISP and how does it compare with the test results from Speedtest.net? Ideally you want a nice low ping too - higher than 50ms might be a indicator that something is amiss with your connection and/or configuration.

Cycrow

Graphics cards will not effect the loading speed of websites. Even the weakest ones will be able to render a webpage with ease.

it could be a memory issue, shared graphics cards dont have their own ram, so they share the system ram, which leaves less available for the system.
This will be easy to determine, you can just check task manager for the memory usage, close to 100% usage would mean you its a memory issue

otherwise, its much more likely to be your connection speed, or other software that might be interferring

jaydeeuk1

'New PC'
I'm guessing shop bought, probably comes preinstalled with a load of tat. If you have virus scanners, anti malware programs and other rubbish scanning every incoming image, webpage or other asset it will slow it down. Disable / uninstall any rubbish that runs in the background or on top of the browser, theres probably a thread on here somewhere about what to look for and which program is best to use, like ccleaner etc. Mines running the built in windows virus software, if you have 2 installed and running then you will have performance issues, especially if it has a hard drive rather than an SSD which is good at masking performance issues.

If connection speed was fine on your old PC, and the spec of the PC is an upgrade, then I'd put good money on it being the above.

stator

Are you connecting to your home network using WiFi or a network cable? If using Wifi best to rule that out by testing with a cable

fleshandbone

Disable the virus scanner and firewall and see if it speeds up.

almillar

To massively speed up web browsing (depending on which pages you're on of course), either disable/uninstall Adobe Flash, or set your browser to ask you if you want to run it each time, which means Flash won't run every time there's some rubbish advert. The settings are in different places in different browsers, but should be in amongst plugins or addons.
Also in relation to the memory above - your separate (AKA discrete) graphics cards would have had their own processor and RAM. Shared, or integrated shares RAM and processor. For the RAM, you can set in the BIOS or the UEFI how much of your main RAM to give over to your graphics. Go and see what that setting is at. At a very rough guide, I'd give 500mb out of 4GB to the graphics in Windows 10.