How can I speed up web page loading?

Fellas, my Peppermint 9 netbook is so slow loading up web pages. It's driving me bonkers. I'm fed up seeing that wait box pop up. I have fibre broadband and updated Chrome. My Chromebook which sadly broke last week (my clumsy leg with the broken knee knocked it off the sofa and its screen cracked) was lightning fast loading up web pages, so it is not my internet connection.  I know an SSD drive is faster (which it had and which the netbook doesn't) but can there really be such a huge difference? T...