Internet going slow? May be a virus?

I'm on this one site a lot, and I mean a lot; since its fun and I have nothing else better to do with my time. could this site be slowing my computer down?
It's a legit site, no virus's or shady things going on with it. but whenever I'm on it, the pages dont seem to load anymore and I have to put my computer to sleep (mac laptop) or exit out of all my pages (usually 2 or 3) and just wait for a couple minutes before using the internet again. my network we have is pretty fast and works well. all the other sites I go on work perfectly fine and load as fast as usal, but I guess... its just on that one site it slows down.
but it doesnt have any pop ups or anything! how could this happen? and what should i do? just lay off the site for a week or something?
So is it a virus is what I'm saying? if so what do i do to get rid of it???

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