# Page Load Failures

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-load-failures/804746>\
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**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-load-failures/804746 "2017-12-18T00:18:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-load-failures/804746/1 "2017-12-18T00:18:56Z")

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I’m getting page load failures about 90% of the time right now. I would guess it’s related to the new format, but I’m not certain.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-load-failures/804746/2 "2017-12-18T00:50:27Z")

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I’m not getting any errors at the moment.

Page load errors generally don’t have anything to do with the format, unless something in the new format causes a dramatic increase in server load. I haven’t seen anything in the new format that looks like it would increase the load on the servers.

Page load errors are generally the result of something going on with the server (like overload, or maintenance, maybe a network switch misconfiguration, or some sort of hardware error) or they are the result of some sort of network problem between you and the server.

If anyone else is having similar problems, please post here so that we know about it.

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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-load-failures/804746/3 "2017-12-18T00:51:50Z")

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It seems to be resolved for now. I’ll let you know if it starts happening again.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-load-failures/804746/4 "2017-12-18T01:08:41Z")

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I was pretty active in the same timeframe and experienced zero weirdness. FTR I use the new theme. As you say, not that I expect that to be relevant to page load failures.

I do use only http. There might be more oddness if **Sunny** is half in https land.