Mumsnet very slow on laptop, any tips to improve loading?

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I'm posting this in chat rather than site feedback, because I would be interested to see if anyone else finds it slow or if it is just me.

I visit Mumsnet on my laptop, not on my phone. I don't have the app. Owing to eyesight problems, I find it easier to read on my laptop. (Not sure if you can get the app on a laptop)

I visit a lot of different sites, such as Ebay, Freecycle, Asda, Amazon, assorted puzzle sites, newspapers etc. and they all run well.

Mumsnet however is a different story. I'm not a prime member, so I don't pay to access the site and don't know if it would be better if I paid for it. But it always runs really slowly. I'm forever getting pop up messages to say the page is not responding and do I want to wait or exit the page. I sometimes have to wait for about 3 minutes for a page to load.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get it to run better?

The ads slow everything down. On my laptop the forum also keeps sticking, and God knows what a loud 'bang' is I often get when I am on here.
No other forum I have ever been on has this....I do use an adblock, obviously not on here though.

It goes through phases and has done for years, I agree it's the ads. It goes through phases of getting a bit better and then awful again, it makes my machine sound like it's going to take off, it keeps crashing, it's really slow. It's the worst site I've ever been on tbh but they don't do anything because the ads make them money.

I bet it loses them traffic though. I find the flashing images on the ads often get too invasive. I have auras, and they certainly don't help.