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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:27:57+00:00

My webpage initial loads time is less than 2 seconds in firefox, Safari and

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My webpage initial loads time is less than 2 seconds in firefox, Safari and Opera. But the same page takes 29 seconds to load in IE7/IE8. Do browsers handle initial time differently? How do I optimize the page load time for IE browsers?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are many factors comprising page load speed. I suspect there could be two things making this bad for IE here:

    • The javascript engine in IE <= 8 is way slower than anything else
    • IE used to limit parallel downloads to 2 per host, so you’re download those ~2mb of images in sequence

    Is this a public webpage? You should work reducing the size of your assets, everything (HTML/CSS/JS/Images) is huge. Pages should seldomly go over 600kb as a whole, downards of 300kb is ideal.

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