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Ask HN: Why does plus.google.com take an eternity to load?
Is it just happening to me? Every time I visit Google plus, it atleast takes 25+ seconds for the page to completely load.
- dmschulman 12y agoNothing out of the ordinary. The load time is atrocious and it's due to how Google+ was re-engineered to be a frontend to the Google ecosystem (if you will). Pretty window behaviors were favored over quick load times and ease of use. GChat was shoehorned in because of course no one has any other means to communicate over XMPP (sarcasm). These annoyances and more are the reason why G+ has become so (increasingly) derided by the internet. I dislike what it has become but I still use it frequently. I hope Google will make it a lot less bloated someday
- plicense 12y agoI really want to use G+, but every time I try to load up the site, it turns me off to a point where I feel I have other things to do than wait for the site to load.
- MichaelStubbs 12y agoI've just tried it after clearing my cache and it takes 5 seconds at most.
- bpicolo 12y ago5s is a -long- time for page loads