How to make Gmail load faster?
Gmail is one of the best web mail services available, and makes a great use of AJAX technology. Probably because of this, Gmail loads slow during login for many people. Here are some tweaks for making Gmail load faster.
- Use Basic HTML page
- Add https://
Click here to activate the basic HTML page for Gmail. This will considerably reduce Gmail loading time since the pages are just plain HTML, and do not have Javascript embedded. The option is also available in Gmail’s footer.
Some people believe that replacing http:// in Gmail’s URL with https:// considerably decreases loading time, and makes Gmail load faster. Try it by clicking here.
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Thanks for the help! Now my gmail loads a lot faster!
I would love to have a code to hide the “About Me” text for 2.0. Can you help?
Switching to Basic HTML may have helped. I’m not sure.
Adding ‘S’ to the http helped a lot.
Thanks!
Yes, adding the “s” certainly worked. Thank you.