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If you’re experiencing gmail slowness, or if you’ve got any tips for increasing gmail speediness, leave a comment below. Google is now acknowledging the Gmail slowness issue. At SXSW this year there was a panel with four or five Gmail team members and this came up - they said it’s related to the size of your inbox, and that it has a lot of Googlers complaining internally too, since many of them have the oldest/large accounts… See The Gmail team is most definitely aware of this and a fix is in the works. Jkincaid, a Googler, adds details via this hacker news thread:

There are a few interesting workarounds being linked around the web. According to a variety of sources, Google has been fixing the issue by moving users who have clout to new gmail servers. If you’ve tried all of the above, you may be out of luck.

Another useful search is ‘has:attachment’, which will find any emails with files attached. Protip: If you search for ‘before:’ you can select all mails that were sent before that date.

If all else has failed, you’ll want to decrease the total space of the items you’ve got stored in your Google Account.

Use a third party email client, like Sparrow, Mac Mail, or Thunderbird.

You can do this via General Settings via the ‘maximum page size’ setting.

Decrease the number of mails shown on one page.

Add “?nocheckbrowser” to the URL - Try via this link:.

Disable any ‘Google Labs’ features you have enabled for your Gmail account.

Delete your cookies, temporary internet files, and disable browser plugins.

Switch to a modern browser, like Google Chrome.

First things first, make sure your internet connection is speedy.

I’ve collated some tips to fix your gmail slowness: It’s been one year since my original post on Gmail slowness, and it now seems that, since then, others have been having similar issues.

Gmail takes a long time to load