How can I speed up Internet Explorer 11

[Rapporman]

Hi Everyone

For the past 10 years I have enjoyed excellent, fast browsing using Internet Explorer on my 32 bit XP Home PC. Recently, I had to reinstall XP but even after getting all the updates and installing Google Chrome because it was obvious IE unable to cope, my browsing became a nightmare. I therefore installed Windows 7 Ultimate x 32 bit, upgrading IE to 11 in the process but I still find Browsing to be frustratingly slow. I have tried IE with no addons but it seems I still have to wait for all the adverts and pop ups to load before I can start browsing a particular website.

Am I the only one experiencing this or is the Industry trying to force us into upgrading to the latest OS's. Any comments would be much appreciated to prevent me throwing my PC out the Window.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
I made this a while back,
Internet explorer tweaks - Microsoft Community
Some of the screen shots are gone but I'll work on it and restore them,
Bottom line really is to not use Compatibility view lists from M$ that actually helps a lot,
Alt+TB or Menubar/ Tools/ Compatibility view settings
Uncheck all of the boxes
Then just delete your browser history to get rid of the ones that have already been installed,
Alt+TD or Ctrl+Shift+Delete keys when ie is open
Check all of the boxes except for the very top one Uncheck it/ then delete.
You can Uncheck form fills if you use that feature.

 

[Rapporman]

Many thanks for your reply. I intend to wade through and carry out the tasks outlined in the list of IE Tweaks in your Microsoft Community Discussion and I will let you know if anything works. In the meantime, I have carried out a Clean Boot and the two tasks outlined in your reply but regret to say they made no difference to IE 11, so far.

What I cannot understand is how or why I enjoyed a relatively pleasant browsing PC experience with XP, then upgrade to W7 only to suffer nothing but utter annoyance and frustration with high CPU usage by MS software and abysmal IE Browsing. The trouble is that as long as the Retailers and the IT Industry can bombard us with advertising and collate our spending habits, nothing will change.

 

[Tookeri]

Internet Explorer isn't that customizable as compared to for example Firefox.

A recent research about the new feature in Firefox called "Tracking Protection" showed that page load times decreases by 44% when blocking trackers
Firefox Tracking Protection decreases page load times by 44% - gHacks Tech News

In addition, it reduced the average data usage when connecting to the top 200 Alexa websites by 39%, and dropped the number if HTTP cookies by 67,5% on those sites. Tracking Protection blocked at least one tracking element on 99% of the top 200 Alexa sites, 11 tracking elements on 50% of the sites, and up to 150 trackers in at least one site.

Internet Explorer
As an experiment you could temporarily change the security level for the Internet Zone in to High. That will turn off scripts, active-x objects and more. It will break many web pages, but you could try it to see if it makes a difference.
I always have the Internet Zone set to High and then add sites/domains to Trusted sites that is set to Medium-High.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Most of the issues with ie11 are ie11

The most stable version is 10 not 11.
If there's a snowballs chance in hell uninstall the ie11 windows update and roll back to ie10,
If uninstalling ie11 does not roll back to 10 hide the ie11 windows update and manually recheck for updates,
Either ie9 or 10 or both will appear
Lock and load
Cheers.

 

[Rapporman]

Thanks for replying both of you.

Re Tookeri's suggestion, I changed the Internet Security Zone to High but Ebay, for Example, would not load any pages until I had reinstated Java. Doing so, meant the Security Level went back to Medium/High, so I am going to try ThrashZone's suggestion and revert to IE 10 - once I get the hang of knowing how to do it!!

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Well if you notice it is suggested to get rid of Java from Oracle
You don't need it
It's only a security hole awaiting an exploit
Cheers.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hi,
Most of the issues with ie11 are ie11

The most stable version is 10 not 11.
If there's a snowballs chance in hell uninstall the ie11 windows update and roll back to ie10,
If uninstalling ie11 does not roll back to 10 hide the ie11 windows update and manually recheck for updates,
Either ie9 or 10 or both will appear
Lock and load
Cheers.

Most of the problems I've had with IE11 (not that I have had many) is with websites with incompetent and/or lazy website designers who can't or won't update their websites to be compatible with IE11. I personally like IE11 (much, much better than FireFox and Chrome) and have had no speed issues with it so, as far as I'm concerned, the sites with lazy/incompetent web designers can shove it (and I tell them more than that when they try to tell me to use a different browser!).

 

[ThrashZone]

Are browsers supposed to load a website no matter how it's built or is it the other way around :/
Even SevenForums.... does not comply with M$'s coding wishes for Internet explorer so what are we to assume

There shouldn't be a whole lot of difference in how any browser loads a website
To say something special has to be done for 1 particular browser is usually the browsers flaw not the website
All websites should be doing is complying with 3w.org and a browser should load it best it can.

 

[carwiz]

Some sites just flat don't like MS and try to force the issue. Primarily because IE is more secure and doesn't allow crap to weasel in. IE11 will soon be even better at it with the upcoming change.

Occasionally websites are written in such a way that they effectively block certain browsers. One common reason for this is that the website has been tested to work with only a limited number of browsers, and so the site owners enforce that only tested browsers are allowed to view the content, while all other browsers are sent a "failure" message, and instruction to use another browser. Many of the untested browsers may still be otherwise capable of rendering the content. Sophisticated users who are aware of this may then "spoof" the user-agent in order to gain access to the site.

Forgot to add:
Think about it. Just who would even consider NOT testing with IE versions.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Some sites just flat don't like MS and try to force the issue. Primarily because IE is more secure and doesn't allow crap to weasel in. IE11 will soon be even better at it with the upcoming change.

Occasionally websites are written in such a way that they effectively block certain browsers. One common reason for this is that the website has been tested to work with only a limited number of browsers, and so the site owners enforce that only tested browsers are allowed to view the content, while all other browsers are sent a "failure" message, and instruction to use another browser. Many of the untested browsers may still be otherwise capable of rendering the content. Sophisticated users who are aware of this may then "spoof" the user-agent in order to gain access to the site.

Forgot to add:
Think about it. Just who would even consider NOT testing with IE versions.

There a are a lot of websites that are not IE11 compatible. When I switched to IE11 last year, ABC's website would no longer allow me to stream TV shows. Their tech help's solution? Try another browser. My response to that can't be printed here. Earlier this year, they finally redesigned their website to be compatible with IE11.

I got into it last year with the free and paid web storage/backup site called Mega (the one based in New Zealand). They refuse to design their service to be compatible with all versions of IE.

Web designers hate IE because it is more difficult to design a website for than for other browsers, especially since each new version of IE has new parameters web designers have to learn how to accommodate. But then, there a lot of really bad web designers out there that don't know certain body parts from an excavation. Another pet peeve I have is web designers will put in a link for the email address to contact the owner of the website that automatically goes directly to an email client, such as Outlook. The problem is, not every one uses an email client, using web based email instead, such as Yahoo Mail, which is what I use. Sometimes, I can find the email address by right clicking the link and checking the properties; sometimes not. I could go on but I've probably bored you by now.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

...There shouldn't be a whole lot of difference in how any browser loads a website...

No, there shouldn't be but it still happens due to bad web design.

...To say something special has to be done for 1 particular browser is usually the browsers flaw not the website
All websites should be doing is complying with 3w.org and a browser should load it best it can.

That philosophy also prevents browsers from being designed to be more secure. It's that kind of thinking that holds back progress in pretty much all fields. That philosophy would still have us breathing airborne lead because eliminating it from gasoline would burn valves and valve seats and cause predetonation unless engines were redesigned to work without the lead.

 

[ThrashZone]

I messaged John here at sevenforum's
He was a bit too drunk to comment from a site owners perspective

Short and sweet version is ie is a pain in the ass.

I'm sure there are sites that block ie for obvious reasons.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I messaged John here at sevenforum's
He was a bit too drunk to comment from a site owners perspective

Short and sweet version is ie is a pain in the ass.

I'm sure there are sites that block ie for obvious reasons.

Yes, IE is a PITA for web designers. That doesn't make it inferior; it just means that many web designers are too incompetent and/or lazy to learn how to deal with it. Modern cars are much harder to work on than older ones; does that mean modern cars are inferior since mechanics have to be smarter and go to the trouble of learning how work on them?

 

[ThrashZone]

If you really want a great example in incompetence in website design and functionality visit any freaking M$ site
Even using ie of any version they are the slowest to load completely.
M$ sites are a train wreck they should hardly be the ones advising anyone how to design anything web related.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

If you really want a great example in incompetence in website design and functionality visit any freaking M$ site
Even using ie of any version they are the slowest to load completely.
M$ sites are a train wreck they should hardly be the ones advising anyone how to design anything web related.

But the M$ sites work without crashing, throwing inaccurate error messages (another pet peeve of mine), etc. Page layout is not the only factor of web design. We mostly have been talking about the coding here.

Funny, when I've tried other browsers, they weren't any faster than the latest versions of IE. The earlier versions of IE, such as IE6, were pretty pathetic but, since IE 7, they have been steadily improving with IE9 being about as good as anything else and IE10 being better than anything else I tried. IE11 is the best version I've used so far with the only problems I've encountered so far being due to lazy and/or incompetent web designers (and many of them eventually came around). In fact, I held off almost a year before upgrading to IE 11 because so many sites weren't compatible at first. Sadly, IE's earlier, well deserved bad reputation has stuck, especially with Geeks, one of the reasons M$ is dropping the name with its newest browser.

Btw, I have no trouble whatsoever accessing Seven Forums with IE11.

 

[ThrashZone]

Here's my last example of a typical M$ website
Read it and weep
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp?tab=Threads - W3C Markup Validator

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Here's my last example of a typical M$ website
Read it and weep
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp?tab=Threads - W3C Markup Validator

Your point being? The coding on the site is just fine; it's just the layout that is rather pathetic. Poor site layout isn't what makes IE 11 incompatible with some websites; it's bad coding by lazy and/or incompetent web designers.

 

[ThrashZone]

Point being the website the validation was on is a freaking train wreck designed and coded by none other than M$ staff.

 

[UsernameIssues]

Perhaps the OP can provide one or two links to websites that load slowly in IE11.



FWIW, I'll repeat my old line when it comes to browser wars:
IE can do stuff that no other browser can.