Improve Macbook Pro's Speed

I have purchased my Macbook Pro last March of this year. It has been working well as I have not had any problems with it.
But lately, whenever I open Safari, the beach ball appears and stays there for seconds.And then it wrecks everything. It slows down opening other applications.
What I would usually do is restart the laptop. Evrything seems fine again and then after sometime, the same scenario appears again
Can someone help me how to improve this? How to improve speed?

It may be your internet connection or your connection to your router. Try powering everything down and then powering back up first the modem, the router and then your Mac. Wait 1 minute between each.

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