When purchased, my imac would load pages very quickly.  Now, the pages seem to take much longer to load and when watching video or streaming, it often stops to catch up or rebuffer.  What do I do to speed things up?

When I purchased my iMac last month the pages would load quickly when using the internet browser.  Now it takes much longer to load the pages and when I watch a video it pauses to catch up or is rebuffering the streaming.  What can I do to speed up my browser?

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Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance,
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