article pages freeze for fifteen seconds
Within the last week, when I am viewing an article page in my regular browser it will refuse to scroll or respond for about fifteen seconds at a time. Then it comes back and responds. Then it freezes again. Etc. Something at your end has changed. Yes, I have some common providers blocked on my regular browser, and that's what I guess is the problem, but it was fine until this week and I've changed nothing in the past month.
Part of the problem is that Internet Explorer 11 does not perform well in general, and even though we load the article first and then other parts of the page, IE will not let you scroll even on a fast computer. Performance is the key reason Microsoft replaced IE 11 with Edge in Windows 10. Here is an experiment you can try, install Google chrome on your computer and compare its performance to the performance of IE 11 for all websites you use.