YouTube Issues

Adyx

For the last few months I've been trouble with Youtube. It's consistently slow to load - the whole site, not just videos. All other websites are fine, including Netflix etc. I've tried disabling browser extensions and different browsers including Edge, Brave, Chrome, Firefox and the MyTube app.

The MyTube app works fine and Firefox is sometimes okay but it's not my preferred browser so neither are a solution for embedded videos.

I'm on Windows 10 and all browsers are up to date, any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Spear

In Firefox, go to Tools -> Web developer -> network.

This will open a panel at the bottom listing the page components. Doe a reload of the page, and look for any object that shows a very long load time.

Adyx

Firefox is working okay at the moment, there's nothing that stands out as being very long but when I do the same in Brave base.js takes over 13 seconds to load. In Edge desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.js takes over 27 seconds to load whereas base.js takes just under 1 second to load.

This is before even clicking a video.

Thanks.

Spear

Adyx wrote: »

Firefox is working okay at the moment, there's nothing that stands out as being very long but when I do the same in Brave base.js takes over 13 seconds to load. In Edge desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.js takes over 27 seconds to load whereas base.js takes just under 1 second to load.

This is before even clicking a video.

Thanks.

What's the full URL to those slow objects?

Adyx

I was away from my computer so I've run it again in Brave.

base.js is https://www.youtube.com/s/player/5dd3f3b2/player_ias.vflset/en_GB/base.js

and the other is

https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/f5d0a4a9/jsbin/desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.vflset/desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.js

This time there's also https://i.ytimg.com/generate_204 which was 24.7 seconds and blocked (ad blocking maybe?).

Spear

Adyx wrote: »

I was away from my computer so I've run it again in Brave.

base.js is https://www.youtube.com/s/player/5dd3f3b2/player_ias.vflset/en_GB/base.js

and the other is

https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/f5d0a4a9/jsbin/desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.vflset/desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.js

This time there's also https://i.ytimg.com/generate_204 which was 24.7 seconds and blocked (ad blocking maybe?).

Generate_204 shouldn't be blocked as an ad, as it isn't one. It returns no content, and as the name suggests, all it does is generate a HTTP 204 response. So there's nothing about it that should be slow to load.

The other objects are much larger, but are cachable and should be cached locally on your machine.

Is there anything else generating network traffic, disk activity or CPU usage?

Adyx

Spear wrote: »

Generate_204 shouldn't be blocked as an ad, as it isn't one. It returns no content, and as the name suggests, all it does is generate a HTTP 204 response. So there's nothing about it that should be slow to load.

The other objects are much larger, but are cachable and should be cached locally on your machine.

Is there anything else generating network traffic, disk activity or CPU usage?

Nothing unusual. The problem even occurs after a restart and if I go straight to YouTube. Network Traffic & Disk Activity would be at or close to zero and CPU Usage is just the usual Windows processes plus Adobe Creative Cloud and Steam with no downloads or updates.

riclad

Have you got plenty of empty disk space,
on drive c?
windows likes at least 5-10 per cent free space for temp file,s ,updates etc
maybe try using opendns
https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/
https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/228007207-Windows-10-Configuration


https://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/how-do-i-flush-my-windows-dns-cache/

Adyx

riclad wrote: »

Have you got plenty of empty disk space,
on drive c?
windows likes at least 5-10 per cent free space for temp file,s ,updates etc
maybe try using opendns
https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/
https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/228007207-Windows-10-Configuration


https://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/how-do-i-flush-my-windows-dns-cache/

Switching DNS Server is working so far. Strange that only YouTube in Edge, Chrome and Brave was affected but I won't look a gift horse. Thanks!

riclad

If i use chrome on android, on youtube it works fine, but theres no sound.
i presume i need to update the chrome browser.
EG If i go to youtube.com in the browser.eg video is fine, no audio
the youtube android app works fine with sound.

Adyx

riclad wrote: »

If i use chrome on android, on youtube it works fine, but theres no sound.
i presume i need to update the chrome browser.
EG If i go to youtube.com in the browser.eg video is fine, no audio
the youtube android app works fine with sound.

I think there's a setting to disable sound on websites in the browser. Maybe you have that turned on? I use Edge on Android and I have sound turned off.

JoyPad

Adyx wrote: »

I think there's a setting to disable sound on websites in the browser. Maybe you have that turned on? I use Edge on Android and I have sound turned off.

In Chrome, right-click the tab with the youtube, and check that "Mute site" option is not checked.

ED E

Adyx wrote: »

Switching DNS Server is working so far. Strange that only YouTube in Edge, Chrome and Brave was affected but I won't look a gift horse. Thanks!

Firefox is doing its own DNS Sec stuff now, probably bypassed whatever you were encountering.