Navigate to homepage and homepage doesn't load or half loads and Chrome crashes

Hi,

Site address: http://ultimategamingparadise.com/

I've got a problem that's got me totally paniced and I'm struggling to pinpoint the issue quickly. Time is of the essence as this has developed on a live site.

What's happening is this.

Go to the site, and if the homepage loads, it loads very quickly. If not, then it crashes the Chrome tab and you have to close the tab and start again. The header loads and that's it, then you just get the grey and white checkerbox pattern.

If it loads and you navigate to reviews, leave it for 30 seconds to a minute, click back on home, it doesn't do anything. the loading timer keeps spinning and again the Chrome tab freezes.

I've removed some suspect plugins, one was jquery updater that has been throwing an error saying it can't find a file since I've installed it. I've not added a hook to load the Google jQuery library in the footer via functions.php. This has in fact, improved jQuery performance.

However, it hasn't solved the issue.

The only other thing I can think of doing since it started is buy a SSL certificate. I'm yet to install it but could this be causing an issue?

You can sit on the homepage for ages and it'll be fine, will navigate away but if you're on the site for more then 30 seconds, navigating back to the homepage is impossible.

I've updated permalinks, it's the most current database I have and nothing has changed on the database since last night when I posted a review and it was fine all night and day.

I did have a link to normalize.css in the header with no actual file, this was causing slow loading times. I've now removed the link and speed has increased.

I'm completely lost, anyone, please please help. My local installation won't even load the homepage at all. It seems, incoming links to the homepage are being blocked or something?

Zac Gordon, help please!!!

To reiterate, this is ONLY happening in Chrome. If Chrome users can go through the above described scenarios and report back if they're experiencing the same issues, that would be great. Otherwise, I can confidentally turn my attention to my computer. I fear, it isn't going to be that lucky. Wish it was my system.

Thanks guys.