Website Data Loads Slowly

I want to delete Safari 10.0.2 cookies for a particular web site.


I select Preferences-> Privacy -> Manage Website Data and enter the domain name into the search box.

The light gray "Loading Website Data" message is displayed, but for long minutes (a quarter hour or more) nothing happens. This used to take a few seconds at most. I don't want to wipe out all the stored information - just reset cookies for a few sites.


Why is it taking so long - and is there a way to speed things up?

macOS Sierra (10.12.1)

Posted on Jan 29, 2017 8:41 AM

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Posted on Jan 29, 2017 10:25 AM

You can make "Loading website data" faster if you empty caches first.


Safari > Preference > Advanced


Checkmark the box beside "Show Develop menu in menu bar".

Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar.

Click “Develop” to show the dropdown.

Click "Empty Caches" in the dropdown, give it a minute or more.

Click the button twice. Test.

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Jan 29, 2017 10:25 AM in response to kurtam

You can make "Loading website data" faster if you empty caches first.


Safari > Preference > Advanced


Checkmark the box beside "Show Develop menu in menu bar".

Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar.

Click “Develop” to show the dropdown.

Click "Empty Caches" in the dropdown, give it a minute or more.

Click the button twice. Test.

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Nov 26, 2017 12:51 PM in response to kurtam

This is clearly a bug in Safari. Even if there were a million cookies, intelligent storage of the data (indexed sqllite database) should take just a few seconds to find matching entries.

Probably necessary to switch to another browser. Chrome seems to be pretty good.

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Feb 2, 2017 5:30 AM in response to kurtam

if you want to keep cookies of particular website you have to search in safari > preferences > manage website data select and don't remove it .

As you already said it took hour's to clear cookies as there may be many cookies saved from months .


Also , you said you don't want to delete cookies for particular website , it is very tedious job to search cookies for particular website .


So , to clear it immediately and speed up the process of cleaning cookies is take cursor on top menu bar click on history > clear all history & website data .

This will remove your browsing history & cookies saved for the all websites that had been saved in your browser .


Note : it is recommended to clear history & website at the end of the day .


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Jan 29, 2017 9:45 AM in response to kurtam

I see the same thing and no one has posted a workaround to speed things up.


Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.


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