Selenium automation Page Loading is very Slow

Question

I am using chromedriver for selenium automation.But webpage loading is very slow compared to manual testing.Kindly help

Getting error:

[1596549682.992][SEVERE]: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 300.000

Code trials:

ChromeOptions option=new ChromeOptions();
option.setPageLoadStrategy(PageLoadStrategy.NORMAL);
option.addArguments("--disable-features=NetworkService");
option.addArguments("--dns-prefetch-disable");
option.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
option.setProxy(null);
driver = new ChromeDriver(option);

Chrome version:84 Chrome driver Version:84 Selenium version:Tried 3.141.59 and 3.5.2

Answer 1

Selenium by default implements pageLoadStrategy as NORMAL. So explicitly setting the same won't make any difference.

However, to avoid waiting for the slowly loading webpage you can set the capability java.lang.String PAGE_LOAD_STRATEGY as none as follows:

ChromeOptions option=new ChromeOptions();
option.setPageLoadStrategy(PageLoadStrategy.NONE);
driver = new ChromeDriver(option);

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• Page load strategy for Chrome driver (Updated till Selenium v3.12.0)
• How to make Selenium not wait till full page load, which has a slow script?
• Don't wait for a page to load using Selenium in Python

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Timed out receiving message from renderer

To address this error you need to update ChromeDriver and google-chrome versions accordingly following the discussion in Timed out receiving message from renderer: 0.100 log messages using ChromeDriver and Chrome v80 through Selenium Java