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10 Tips to Increase Gmail website Speed

November 22, 2010 by Neal 3 Comments

faster gmail logoMany times due to slow internet speed your GMail doesn’t open up or tend to open up very slowly. So with the help of some tips you can enhance the speed of your Gmail. After all you will always want to make the most of your Gmail at a faster speed. So let’s check out the 10 hot tips with which you can make your G Mail access faster than ever.

Tips to speed up your Google Mail:

  • Always Add nocheckbrowser argument

Always add the ?nocheckbrowser argument to the URL at the end. Try it with using the below URL: https://mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser . It relatively reduces the significant load time to make Gmail faster.

nocheckbrowser

  • Turn off Chat in G Mail

Many of us either don’t use chat in G Mail or prefer to use a separate client for chat that is G Talk. It is always better to use Google Talk application to chat with our G mail friends as turning off the chat feature in G mail can add a great boost to the speed of G mail. You can turn off the chat just by scrolling down to the very bottom left side on the G mail mailbox page. Prefer to sign out of chat.

signout of chat

  • Reduce number of “Gmail” Settings

Always reduce the number of “Gmail Labs” Settings as many Labs features are useless which slows down your G Mail load time pretty much. You can test this the speed of G Mail by turning on / off the G Mail Labs and then you can decide on it. Go to Settings and click on Labs to check if there are any labs enabled, if yes then disable them.

G Labs

  • Delete unwanted mails

Always prefer to delete unwanted mails and spam folder as it takes very much of time to load all the bunch of mails including the spam folder. So always delete the unwanted mails.

  • Select HTML Mode

Always remember to switch to HTML Mode as when you generally first log in to your account you will be able to find an option to Switch to HTML mode. In HTML mode many of the features which are driven by AJAX and if you are on a slow internet connection then HTML Mode is the fastest way you can go.

Loading

  • Try reducing the number of Browser plugins

Most importantly always try to reduce the number of browser extensions or plugins in your browser. More of the plugins will lead to more of the memory consumption. So its recommended to disable or reduce the browser plugins.

  • Use mobile mode in G Mail

If your internet speed is too low and despite following the above steps you were not able to increase the speed of the Gmail then in the url space enter m.gmail.com which is a mobile version and uses the lowest bandwidth and with this site your Gmail will not only be fast but will be zooming fast.

m.G Mail

  • Clear your browser cache

Always flush out the offline storage or the cache which accumulates every time you access the Gmail. Clean your cache regularly and start browsing with a fresh and clean one. In Firefox, go to Tools and then click on Settings and then on the pop up screen you will find an option to clear the offline cache or if you are on a safari browser then you can easily clear the cache and history for this too as shown below.

clear browser cache

  • Enable GMail Offline Access

If you want to read mails and if you have limited internet connectivity then you can make use of this useful tool which is GMail Offline Access. Without using the internet, you can see the past mails very easily.

gmail offline access

  • Reduce Number of conversations or mails per page

Always reduce the number of mails shown on each page. This you can do so by first going to Settings in your G Mail and then in the Maximum Page size category, select the number of conversations and select the minimum conversations.

conversations

So, with the above mentioned 10 ways you can easily increase the GMail access speed. Its better to use the GMail as a client for e Mail so that you can make the most of the speed from your Mail. If you still feel that your internet speed is too low, then you can increase the internet speed with speed boost and Optimizer or also you can increase the internet browsing experience speed by 4 times.

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Comments

  1. Jakeer says

    November 23, 2010 at 10:06 am

    thank You.. They were very useful tips.

    Reply
  2. iPage Review says

    January 12, 2011 at 9:13 am

    Gmail offline access is one of the best features. And apart from that, I too would always suggest to use less number of gmail settings and the labs features. The various labs settings usually slow down the mail loading, as they ask to function first rather than loading of the mails.

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  3. Ayush Gupta says

    April 19, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    I was not knowing about nocheck feature. Thanks

    Reply

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