#Gitbox constantly loading software#

Infinite scroll is where some websites use a model where you don’t go page to page, but rather you just keep scrolling down. If you have a slow internet connection, for example, that could be at play for pages that do this.Īnother scenario are pages that we now call “infinite scroll”. But whatever the time is, if the page actually takes longer to load than that set time, it will never finish loading before it starts loading over again. Yes, a web page can tell the browser “reload me every so many seconds”. Not many do and not many do it very quickly.

There are two other scenarios that come to mind as well. Unfortunately, the ISP I’m talking about is in the process of being phased out after being purchased, and it’s a mess, with no real support.īut basically, anything that interrupts the communication between your browser and the various resources on the web page could manifest as a page that never finishes loading, or at least takes an exceptionally long time. It’s something that I need to work out with my ISP. So with 51 different domains being referenced on a single page, I have a chance of that happening to me. And it does. By that I mean, the browser’s going to ask “What’s the IP address for ?” and the DNS request times out after, as it turns out, a fairly long time.

So, where do these hiccups come from? Well, I can’t speak for you, but my current ISP setup is occasionally dropping DNS requests. The bottom line is that it’s something that might not matter, and that I would never notice. By that I mean, I often can’t tell what’s missing or what’s causing the problem. Maybe it’s an image that didn’t load, some random analytics file, or some random advertisement. My experience is that when this happens, the hiccup usually doesn’t matter. Well here’s why, on some pages, that spinning ball might keep spinning: If there’s a hiccup with even one of those 300+ requests – a hiccup that causes the browser to wait for a response that might never actually come – the browser will see the page as still loading, and it will keep spinning that little page loading indicator until it times out. So, why does that matter? It impacts the overall page speed, of course, but eventually everything loads, right? Just one delay or failure Once you throw in advertising, analytics, images and who knows what else… it all adds up. Just loading that one page makes 344 different requests from at least 51 different domains – and my pages aren’t nearly as complex as some of the other sites you might visit every day. (Though based on the results, I might be trimming a few things now that I’ve looked at it!)

#Gitbox constantly loading software#

I just did a test of one page: “ What Security Software do you Recommend?”. You think that you’re accessing a single page on a simple site like say,. Web pages have become incredibly complex. I can’t specifically say what it is in your case, but I have several ides of what it might be, and I kind of sort of know what it is in mine. I don’t think it’s browser related, since you’re running Firefox and I’m running Chrome.

I’ve been noticing this from time to time myself on various websites.