# Sluggish forum-site response **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [July 8, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309 "2024-07-08T22:17:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/41 "2024-07-17T22:32:23Z")
> [@George\_San\_Jose1](#): > > over the tab saying “sluggish forum-site response” I have no idea what that is, never seen it, you might have to screen shot what you mean… I use Windows 11 Home and Google Chrome… ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/42 "2024-07-17T22:41:17Z")
![Untitled_new](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/6/c/6c4fd19034e5a29c1be70fdc0f31f717149bb745.gif) ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/43 "2024-07-17T22:44:42Z")
Never paid attention to that before… lol I am showing 1.1 GB right now… ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/44 "2024-07-17T22:45:17Z")
OMG! Try it for another website, like Google. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/45 "2024-07-17T22:51:44Z")
Another forum is 49.4 MB ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/46 "2024-07-17T22:56:34Z")
That’s more like what I’d expect. Something must be amiss w/the Car Talk website. Hopefully the website gurus will chime in with their ideas. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/47 "2024-07-17T23:12:59Z")
How often do you delete browser cookies or browser history? ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/48 "2024-07-17T23:19:13Z")
I just deleted them, memory usage moved from 1.5GB to 1.3 GB. A few minutes later, memory usage is now down to 0.85 GB. So maybe tossing the website’s cookies (so to speak … lol …) does offer some benefit for the high memory usage symptom. Oops, seconds later, now it is back to 1.0 GB. ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/49 "2024-07-18T01:48:53Z")
I tried an experiment on my Firefox browser using its “about:memory” measurement feature. With my ad-blocker enabled, I created a new tab, opened this site, clicked on this discussion. The memory usage was 103 Mb. Then I repeated the above with my ad-blocker disabled. The memory usage was 184 Mb. That’s a 78% increase in memory just from ads within seconds of opening one tab! Just think of the added memory usage across multiple open tabs, and tabs that are long running which tend to use more memory. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/50 "2024-07-18T23:46:55Z")
7.18.2024 update: Good news so far. No sluggishness noted, and no high memory usage messages. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/51 "2024-07-19T21:22:23Z")
7.19.24 update: On the right pathway. No sluggishness noted, but the “high memory usage” message has returned today, showing 1.0 GB. Still, this is a definite improvement over the prior 3+ GB. ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/52 "2024-07-19T21:25:23Z")
> [@George\_San\_Jose1](#): > > 7.19.24 update: No updates needed George . Private message Julie or John because they are the ones who can contact someone if there is a problem . ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/53 "2024-07-20T11:39:51Z")
I wonder if George has scanned his computer for spyware and/or cookies recently. I am usually pretty good about removing cookies from my machine, but I have been preoccupied recently with some health issues, and when I finally decided to delve-into cookie land yesterday, I found that I had not done one of those scans for a little more than one month. Following the scan for spyware, malware, and cookies, it turned-out that more than 4,300 cookies had contaminated my laptop during that period of time. After cookie removal, there is a noticeable improvement in my machine’s performance. This is the free program that I use. They also try to sell you a “paid” version, but the free version seems to be very effective: > **[SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition](https://www.superantispyware.com/free-edition.html)** > > Try the Professional Edition for 24/7 real-time protection: immediate threat blocking, automatic database updates, scheduled scanning, and more. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/54 "2024-07-20T15:54:58Z")
Any idea how it compares to CCleaner free edition?? We have used CCleaner seems like forever… ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/55 "2024-07-20T16:06:14Z")
I tried CCleaner for a while… until the _hard sell_ for their paid version became so extreme that it locked-up my laptop. Bye-bye CCleaner! ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/56 "2024-07-20T19:49:44Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > I wonder if George has scanned his computer for spyware and/or cookies recently. I wonder how spyware or cookie problems could only affect Car Talk/Community, and no other websites? More good news for the Car Talk tech support folks: No sluggishness nor high memory usage messages nor infectious parasite ads today, so far. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/57 "2024-07-20T22:13:02Z")
Malware Bytes? Auslogics for defrag. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/58 "2024-07-21T16:16:27Z")
I think that’s what I have used for years but I have been a little remiss in updating and saving stuff. ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/59 "2024-07-21T16:36:28Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > Auslogics for defrag. What are you running where defragging is necessary? As of Windows 7, HDDs (spinning disk drives) are defragged automatically. Solid state drives, like SSDs or NVMEs, don’t need to be defraged. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309/60 "2024-07-21T17:47:45Z")
My Win8 laptop, which I took advantage of a free upgrade to Win 10 home basic 8 years ago, periodically shows 2-4 percent fragmented. So I run Auslogics, and it also speeds the machine up a little, for a while. Now… If I could just get this thing to stop using my HDD as RAM, and pegging disc use to 100 percent half the time! [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309.md?page=2) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sluggish-forum-site-response/195309.md?page=4)