By kwixson on

I have a Drupal site where every page keeps loading, even though all of the page renders and it doesn't seem to be missing anything. It's http://higginsformichigan.com/ if you want to check it out. I don't know how to find out why. Obviously something's wrong. How do I find out what's keeping the connection open?

Steps I've taken so far:

1.) disabled all the modules I activated around the time I noticed the problem.
2.) tried switching to another theme, a standard one, and it still occurs
3.) tried another site on the same server, using the same code (it's a multisite installation) and the other site is fine
4.) looked a variety of pages, and it occurs on every page of the site
5.) searched the web and these forums for others having the same trouble and can't find any

Any advice for diagnosing this kind of problem?

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kwixson’s picture

kwixson commented

Must be Firefox 3 weirdness. Restarted Firefox and problem went away. But I'm still curious. How does one find out what it making a web page hang like that. I've seen it before, at other sites. Obviously it *could* have been something like a badly written module. How do you tell? So, to broaden out the discussion/topic, how does one go about diagnosing or troubleshooting Drupal code, especially with something that doesn't exactly give you an error message?

dman’s picture

dman commented

Check your 404s
A lot of them, even if they are invisible - like CSS image references - will take forever as Drupal generates a full CMS bootstrap each time.
Equally likely is remote dependancies, like ads or scripts.
(can't see either on your linked site tho...)

.dan.
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SteveTurnbull-1’s picture

SteveTurnbull-1 commented

It looks like it really is something to do FF3. We've had exactly the same problem - some pages almost finish loading and then just hang at the end ... waiting for something. However interrupting the page shows it's fully loaded and renderable.

But re-loading FF3 and the problem goes away. Of course this only showed itself on the day we had a major demonstration. Bugger.

Since this is a major UK govt project we will be investigating further to find out what is actually going on.

We don't have any external dependencies but we don't have a favicon and that is generating a lot of 404s (as well as wasting valuable processor time - why doesn't Drupal simply notice a favicon request and *not* try to render the g*ddamn page?).

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MrMusashi commented

problems with loadning on either of them...

MrM
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jdjeet’s picture

jdjeet commented

Hi, As I faced same problem and clueless how to solve the issue. My page is loading completely but the loader is still going on as if someone will think the loading is still on.

Any Idea about the process how to checkout with such issue.