Speed Up Facebook Video Buffering on PC & Android

Slow Facebook video buffering remains a consistent search keyword in world’s most widely used, powerful search engine, Google.

The slowness issue with the social media giant isn’t uncommon. If you’re encountering performance issues while watching any Facebook videos, don’t feel that you’re alone. There are many other users that are also encountering this issue due to a variety of reasons – ranging from poor Internet speed to misconfigured browser settings and corrupt cache contents. This article outlines helpful tips for Windows PC users and Android users on how to overcome this problem.

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For Windows PC Users

Monitor Facebook Server in Realtime

A free third-party server monitoring service, such as DownRightNow, provides a detailed real-time detailed report of server up-downs. Visit the official website here: http://downrightnow.com/facebook

 

Perform Speed Test

A speed test can help determine the Internet connection speed. You might want to select a worldwide server, start the test and decide whether you need a new Internet connection or upgrade your existing plan. Visit the Speed Test official website at http://www.speedtest.net

 

Erase Browser Cookies & Browser Data

A computer cookie is a small file containing a modest amount of data, retrieved by a website for tracking preferences and non-personal information about a particular user. A cookie, which has something to do with the working of your web browser, neither poses any privacy threat nor retains any crucial security, banking information.

Back to the point, Facebook cookie files stored on your local machine, at times, get corrupted. When something goes wrong while accessing, overwriting old cookie files, it results into mass corruption of data and as a result, Facebook videos load a lot slower.

Opera:

1. Click the Menu icon.
2. Move your cursor on More Tools.
3. Select Clear browsing data.
4. On the subsequent screen, select the beginning of time.
5. Check all the boxes, click Clear browsing data.

Internet Explorer:

1. Press Alt key.
2. Click Tools.
3. Select Delete browsing history.
4. Check all the boxes and then click Delete.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Press Alt.
2. Click the History menu.
3. Select Clear Recent History.
4. Select Everything in the Time range to clear drop down box.
5. Check all the boxes.
6. Click Clear Now.

 

Get Rid of Resource Consuming Extensions

Figure out which extensions heavily eat up your system’s memory. You can then determine which ones aren’t really required and proceed to remove them.

Opera:

1. Click Menu.
2. Click Extensions | Manage Extensions.
3. Click Enabled link in the left panel.
4. One by one disable all unwanted extensions.

Internet Explorer:

1. Press the Alt key.
2. Click Tools | Manage Add-Ons.
3. Select Currently loaded add-ons in the Show drop down box.
4. Click Disable button for each Add-On you intend to disable.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Press Alt.
2. Click Tools | Add-ons.
3. Disable all unwanted Add-Ons from the Extensions as well as Plugins tabs.

 

For Android Phone Users

Use Facebook Lite App

Facebook Lite app drastically improves Facebook speed, particularly devices connected through a slow speed Internet connection. The Lite version for Android users, sized approximately at 252 KB, uses much fewer phone resources. Download the APK file from Facebook or Play Store.

 

Clear Cached Data

Cached data is content stored in a memory buffer or a specific folder, depending on its type, as part of conventional main memory usage. The latter type of cache, which is stored in a folder, can get corrupt and result in a lot slower and scratchy Facebook video buffering.

1. Tap the Menu icon.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Scroll down until you find Apps, located in the Devices category.
4. Now tap the Facebook app.
5. Tap Storage.
6. Tap Clear Data and Clear Cache buttons respectively.

 

Reinstall the App

Try reinstalling the Facebook app from the Settings page to fix any possible technical glitch.

1. Open the Apps page again.
2. Tap Facebook app.
3. Tap the Uninstall button.

After successful uninstallation, download it again from Facebook or Play Store.