SiteCore CMS - Webpage Becomes Unresponsive at every click - sitecore

I am a new user of SiteCore platform and facing "Page Unresponsive" Issue - extremely frequently - on SiteCore CMS. This happens on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. This happens at every 30-40 seconds.
Could anyone please share insights on what might have gone wrong and what steps to take to fix this issue?

Hi the bad performance could be generated by different problems. I would recommend you check your console for errors or monitor Sitecore ajax calls that result in errors or are very slow/unresponsive.
chrome web developer tool
Also you can check Sitecore logs for errors. These are located in [data-folder]/logs in log.[date].txt file
You can also check if you met the requirements for installing Sitecore 8:
IIS 8.5 or IIS 8.0
.Net framework 4.5 and above,
Miminum MS Sql server 2008 R2 SP1 or above editions like SQL server 2012, SQL server 2014
MongoDB Database 2.6x if you have Analytics enabled

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