Do Terabytes of Swap Used and Compressed in Memory Slow Down Safari?

[Alvin777]

Hello Mac friends.

My iMac (macOS Ventura) runs on a 1TB NVME SSD (still has hundreds of GB left, about 150GB) and it has 24GB RAM but somehow after closing a lot of applications besides Safari, sites are still rendering slowly even though Speedtest website edition says the internet download is at 90Mbp/s (on Wifi) and there's still about 8GB of RAM. The Swap Used and Compressed (Memory) in Activity Monitor is around 6TB and 4TB.

I did turn the Wifi On and Off and On again and clicked the 'Renew DHCP Lease'.

I restarted, Youtube loaded fast for a few minutes but the rendering now is to crawl, again. How can this be fixed?

Thank you in advance. May you have a blessed week and year.

 

[Alvin777]

It seem Youtube and Google are down. May it not be related to CCP CHN + Putin vs. the world. X-D
🙏🏻✟⛪️ Youtube and Google come back now.

 

[benwiggy]

The Swap Used and Compressed (Memory) in Activity Monitor is around 6TB and 4TB.

That's a LOT. Do you mean Gb? Can you show us the Summary box at the bottom of Activity Monitor?

Is this an M-series Mac?

 

[bogdanw]

Try to disable iCloud Private Relay https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212614 and Hide IP address https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/privacy-sfri35610/mac

If that doesn't work, try to Change DNS settings https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-dns-settings-network-preferences-mac-mh14127/mac

Google DNS Servers
8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

Cloudflare
1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1

OpenDNS
208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220