Apple.com very very slow to load since iPad release....

Wow! I'm still baffled by this problem of apple.com (ipad) page opening. Takes like twenty or more seconds to open when going directly to apple.com., BUT when in another page like iPhone site and then go to "apple icon", the iPad page opens instantly. The "Mac" page is also extremely slow, the one with the scrolling window of various Mac models. This all happened after updating to Snow Leopard. The kicker is not everyone has this problem. I do notice that some not all Flash/javascript orientated websites are slower in opening on both of my iMacs. This happens in Firefox and Chrome too.

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Same issue here, Mac User, happens only on that front page of apple.com and is very annoying and does the same in all browsers; Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

Not sure why it takes about 10 seconds to load?

I have the same issue with Windows 7 - IE8. The problem is effectively linked with Quicktime. If I install Itunes/quicktime, www.apple.com is very slow (IE doesn't respond until each page of apple.com fully loaded).

If I uninstall quicktime, it goes very fast... if I reinstall Quicktime, it goes very slow.

Unfortunately, disabling the "Modules complémentaires" is not enough, quicktime must be uninstalled ... and Itunes doesn't work without Quicktime.

I also notice lately that more pages than usual do not open, hanging I think is the term used. Plus some forum type pages (again not all) take a while to open.

Hi Murray,

I've been having the same issue with the Apple.com site loading after the iPad update. It occurs on my Macbook, iMac and even iPod Touch.

I've read that this might be due to the internet access your having at home. I have a 2Wire router with At&t as my service provider. The only reason I think it might be the access at home is because when I'm at school and on their servers it loads like the "old times" taking only milliseconds to load.

Try loading the page on a different internet connection like at a café or wifi hotspot.
I'll get back to you on my findings whether or not it's my router or Internet provider.

- jeremysmai

Same, only with apple.com webpage and the "Mac" tab link. Very slow to load. Any chance there will be a response or a quick fix by apple any time soon?

Same here, Apple homepage loads very slowly with a mac. However at work with a Win XP computer that has no Apple software at all (no Quicktime or Itunes) it just "pops" open with Firefox... There is some kind of nice irony here!
So if you want to browse Apple homepages, use Windows, works better...

Even though I noticed this problem upon announcement of the iPad (for whatever the **** reason), I continued to have the problem until I dumped StuffIt Delux's MagicMenu while testing for another problem. Suddenly Apple.com opened immediately. Did a full uninstall of all of StuffIt and now use native archiving. All Apple pages load like that (snap!). That wasn't the only problem solved by getting rid of StuffIt - I couldn't load flash video on The Onion site (as far as I know, it affected ONLY the Onion site), but dumping StuffIt fixed that too. Definitely back up to speed here.

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Why can't someone use Onyx instead of Snow leopard cache cleaner?

What new pages? At least http://www.apple.com/fi/ takes a full minute to load! Safari or Firefox, no difference there. And with Osx 10.6.3. All other web pages work normally.

Don't know what software you have, but when I dumped StuffIt Deluxe's MagicMenu the page loaded right up, no delay. Got rid of all StuffIt Deluxe and all is up to speed. If you have that app disable or dump it. Worked for me.

No Stuffit or other such software. And again, problem is only with Apple pages so there must be something wrong at that end.