I was wondering if there are any issues with Outlook 2010 fetching mail from my GMail account using POP3?

I've noticed recently that when I open Outlook 2010 and it performs it's initial send/receive to the mail server or when I press the send/receive button that it's taking a longer period of time for outlook to fetch Gmail from the server down to my PC using POP3. The send side of the send/receive process is always quick, my issue seems to be on the receive side of the process.

I recently compacted my PST file and I have also ran the SCANPST utility to remove any errors that might exist so all should be fine in that regard. Note that Outlook 2010 does fetch my GMail and does so quickly when the actual fetch begins but there seems to be a lag in the time from when Outlook is opened or when the send/receive button is pressed and the actual process of fetching the emails takes place. Note that although nothing has changed in regard to my account settings for years, I did double check and confirmed the GMail POP3 settings within Outlook and everything appears to be normal. Some articles I've read lead me to believe that this is just a problem on the server side not with my Windows 10 Pro PC or with Outlook 2010 but I don't remember this send/receive taking as long as it's taking now.

Does anyone know of any issues with Outlook that might be causing this slow down?

Thanks.