Why is the tom's Hardware website so hard on my old laptop?

[RonGamer]

Why is this website the only one that makes my old Mac Air start to breath hard? The fan starts running as soon as I get here.

 

[RonGamer]

sorry to say, but the adverts might be part of the reason - try to use some adblocker, or ghostery - and yes it's ashame to give you that hint.
i'm using firefox with ghostery and just allow an acceptable range of ads to go through unblocked - as i understand the needs for ads, nevertheless, toms has bit too much of it.

That's what I suspected so I tried Adblock Plus with both Chrome and Safari. It generally blocks between 5-10 ads but it didn't help. How many ads are you seeing blocked?

 

[Jsimenhoff]

i see 23 overall, 19 pcs. ad tracker - 14 blocked in ghostery, let go through toms native, google and amazon
i really suggest to use ghostery in FF - you can get rid of stuff piece by piece and see what happens, and let
non annoying ads on the page...

I wouldn't recommend Ghostery. They merely track you and block all other trackers and then sell the information back to the various data brokers.

 

[Jsimenhoff]

but you know that, this is default but can be deactivated?

I actually didn't know that feature could be deactivated, however, on principle alone it seems kind of shifty that they say they block other trackers, but then ends up tracking you all the same. The EFF Privacy Badger has my stamp of approval.