bug New Google Maps website slower than all other sites I visit

[IntegralDerivative]

Hello Neowin, So, I got my invite for the new Google Maps today. I was going thru the "tour" thing and my PC started slowing down.

My tabs:

my gmail inbox

Maps

neowin

XDA-Developers

Is this my laptop or the website?

[MrA]

It's the website. The new maps is completely client-side vector rendering using WebGL.

[GreatMarkO]

Yeah, I found it very slow - the CPU usage on my laptop shot right up! ...so the poor speed isn't due to the server, it's due to the amount of client-side rendering that's going on!

So although the new maps is impressive, Google need to do something to make it use drastically less CPU! ...or it's going to alienate a large proportion of users once its fully rolled out!

[mwc]

It doesnt even work for me.

[sundayx Veteran]

I didn't find it slower in terms of performance, but getting what I want seems to be slower.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Works great here without any slow downs but that's maybe because I got kinda quick internet and some overpowered specs xD

On my intel atom laptop it was slower though

[3Cube]

I found it to be fast on my powerful home computer but very slow rendering on my not as fast office computer.

[Anibal P]

Working just as fast as the old version, and my system is not top of the line in any way

[Tigurinn]

My laptop was the cheapest one I could find in the electronics store I bought it in.

 

Never had a problem with Google Maps ...until now!

 

It's very slow and I hate that the "man" icon for Street View is missing

[Elliot B.]

I have a 3570K CPU and the new Maps is definitely slower.