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XDA **VERY** slow loading

Hi, i'm facing a really annoying problem.
My browser takes ages to load a page. I mean, the top div gets loaded very fast (as you expect) but the rest takes about 1 minute or more to load the rest of the page.
I have this strange problem only if working in my notebook. With my mobile everything works like a charm.
Is someone in the same situation?
Is XDA doing some maintenance stuff or something?
Thanks

Was having this issue yesterday during work but today it seems to be gone. Could have been an issue with something down the line (DNS, regional routing, whatever) that just caused a temporary slow down.
Short answer is no you aren't alone. Should be gone by now or soon.

I hope so, thanks

i have the same problem

I think I found a solution (even if it is not absolute).
Go to you profile page and set the sytle (at the bottom of the page) at xda classic
Now try to navigate... it is as fast as it should be.
At least, it is for me!

andreapier said:
Hi, i'm facing a really annoying problem.
My browser takes ages to load a page. I mean, the top div gets loaded very fast (as you expect) but the rest takes about 1 minute or more to load the rest of the page.
I have this strange problem only if working in my notebook. With my mobile everything works like a charm.
Is someone in the same situation?
Is XDA doing some maintenance stuff or something?
Thanks
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Yesterday in particular the site was slow because we had processed some upgrades that didn't go quite right. Things should be good now.

Thanks for the reply.
I'm still having the problem.
However, I tries my "solution" on another machine, and it works too.
If it can help other user, you can add to FAQ main page.
I hope it's only a matter of time as the 2010 theme is really pretty. The classic one is just a little bit... old-fashioned.

so many background scripts running, because too much function and too much rules.
post limit to access certain service, wth....
i got bugs to inform the developer but ending to make several useless posts here first.
xD
If xda very slow, be patient!

works well for me

I think i didn't get your point...
I just tried to understand what is happening here...
I also found out that changing theme speed-up the loading process, and i want to share this with other user that are having these same issue... if you want to wait ages to check a page you are free to do so, but please leave other do what they prefer!!

It occurred to me quite often in the last months but, probably, I was "great" enough to decide loading xda when they perform the maintenance of the forum...

Today i noticed a very slow loading here...
I checked my ping and noticed that everytime i open XDA my ping goes from 20ms to 1500-2000, even after not loading any threads and leaving the PC alone for many minutes. When i close XDA, ping goes down to normal.
Please fix it. Maybe some buggy ads or something else.

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Please fix it. Maybe some buggy ads or something else.
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I think it's media.xda-forum-com... My browsers goes stuck right there.

also cdn.viglink.com is blocking for a long time
Can you please fix it?

Fix available (at least for me):
change DNS in your router config to the ones offered by opendns...
Now everything works like a charm.

i shouldn't have posted this here! just notice what section I was in (found this thread in a search)

i'm using ie9 and when i post a reply(not quick reply) and I try to click my mouse pointer in between letters of the words I type, the mouse pointer is not displayed.

Web Page Rendering

I have this situation thats hard to narrow down. Looking to see if anyone else has seen it.
This startef for me on April 6th, and continues through the update.
When visiting some web pages, the page will connect, but no data is displayed. Its obvious the page has connected. There is NO connection issue. I am connected.
Once this situation occurs, no other web page will display data. A reboot is requried.
Now, this occurs, as far as I can tell, only on certain pages, and only about 1 in 15 times. It only occurs while on WFI, and never occurs when connected only to 4g.
The pages I have had trigger this situation are:
Twitter homepage. But not in the last week.
XDA.
Has anyone else seen this? I can reproduce this everyday if I wish. It most definitely is NOT a data disconnect. But is fatal in that once it occurs, no other web page will display.
My xda page will scramble and change formating. No other page does this.
Any thoughts???

At first I figured the best I could do was test when I got home, so I wen't back to the forum list. And then it hit me! At work, using ie and no ad-block software XDA will sit and spin as certain ad site's fail to render (I just assumed it's blocked by my employer).
I don't have this problem on my phone, but then I use board-express. This never happens in Firefox or at home (where I do use ad-block software).
Could this be related? When it happens my page is all-white, and is done loading. After 5 minutes it 'pops' back to XDA.
Another question: do you experience this in mobile and desktop versions of the browser?

eknutson said:
At first I figured the best I could do was test when I got home, so I wen't back to the forum list. And then it hit me! At work, using ie and no ad-block software XDA will sit and spin as certain ad site's fail to render (I just assumed it's blocked by my employer).
I don't have this problem on my phone, but then I use board-express. This never happens in Firefox or at home (where I do use ad-block software).
Could this be related? When it happens my page is all-white, and is done loading. After 5 minutes it 'pops' back to XDA.
Another question: do you experience this in mobile and desktop versions of the browser?
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I would not have even thought of it as a rendering problem until I read about the Twitter page being rendered badly.
I just set the IE mobile browser to Desktop version and will be attempting to reproduce it. I cannot reproduce it on the PC at all...

It's actually a WiFi issue. I've had this problem on occasion with both my windows phones as well as my HP touchpad w/ WebOS and Android. It has something to do with certain routers holding onto a connection even when a device has dropped while in sleep mode.
I currently have a Belkin router and have had limited success in resolving it with this router. The best result I had was shortening the DHCP leasing, but still have issues on occasion.

BooR4dley said:
It's actually a WiFi issue. I've had this problem on occasion with both my windows phones as well as my HP touchpad w/ WebOS and Android. It has something to do with certain routers holding onto a connection even when a device has dropped while in sleep mode.
I currently have a Belkin router and have had limited success in resolving it with this router. The best result I had was shortening the DHCP leasing, but still have issues on occasion.
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I'm pretty sure you're right. I apparently only get the issue at home. Work...no issues. 4g no issues. I actually changed AP's yesterday at home. I had a dual band AP. Though faster, the AP was always dropping. So I put in an older Linksys and its steady. We'll see if i can dupe it with the old one.

Pages on the website are stuck in a constant reload loop.

Ever since the big website update most pages on here are not constantly reloading over and over. I have to hurry and click a link to view a thread or make a post before the pages reloads again. Anyone else having this issue, and is their a solution for it?
Using Firefox 13.0.1 + ABP + NoScript.

Sounds like a buggy plug in or extension in your browser. Disable them all and then add back one by one until you find the culprit.

Doesn't seem to be doing it anymore.

I've heard of this issue when members are using the NoScript plugin. If you allow xda-developers.com it should load the page without issue. I've been trying to track why it will reload when using NoScript but haven't figured it out yet. Let me know anyone determines why that happens and I'll fix it.

bitpushr said:
I've heard of this issue when members are using the NoScript plugin. If you allow xda-developers.com it should load the page without issue. I've been trying to track why it will reload when using NoScript but haven't figured it out yet. Let me know anyone determines why that happens and I'll fix it.
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I think the main culprit is the googletagservices.com ... allowing only that one in NoScript stopped the constant reloading of the pages at xda Forums ... for me at least.

vborovic said:
I think the main culprit is the googletagservices.com ... allowing only that one in NoScript stopped the constant reloading of the pages at xda Forums ... for me at least.
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I do believe you're right. Earlier today the problem returned, probably because I have been viewing direct thread urls/bookmarks rather than navigating the forum lately. I kept trying to temp-allow scripts between page reloads one at a time but none worked...up to and including everything being allowed which I would imagine rules out NoScript. Just now I blocked everything but the main page script and the one you mentioned and that seems to have worked.
Edit: Nope, no dice. I went to the Captivate section and saw no sub-sections so I allowed and disallowed scripts until I found the one that displayed those sub-sections which is the Googleapis.com script. The second I allowed that(with googletagservices and main site script still allowed) the page went in to the infinite reload loop again. I tried to revoke the permissions of googletagservices and it made no difference.
When I revoke googleapis permission to run the page instantly stops reloading, but as mentioned above it delivers content necessary to the forum. In order to navigate the forum I need that script permitted and I have to race to click links before the page reloads.

I'm only an occasional visitor to XDA, and hit this problem today. I'm using Firefox with noscript. Allowing skimresources.com with noscript stopped the reload problem for me. I already had googleapis.com allowed.
Cheers,
Simon.

I just finished temporarily allowing 30+ scripts and the reload loop seems to have stopped. This website has more scripts than any website I have EVER seen in my time of having noscript installed.
Still can't figure out what script needs to be disabled so googleapis can stay enabled. With this ridiculous amount of scripts it'll take me an hour to figure it out. -_-
ETA: With all scripts running the pages are now constantly loading. Right now it's loading something to do with the liftdna script. My advice? Cut the scripts down to 5 or less because 30+ is unacceptable and problematic.
ETA2: Results from WebPageTest when I ran forum.xda-developers.com in it. Not sure if this has anything worthwhile in it.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120920_PK_NA6/

johnnyrichter said:
I just finished temporarily allowing 30+ scripts and the reload loop seems to have stopped. This website has more scripts than any website I have EVER seen in my time of having noscript installed.
Still can't figure out what script needs to be disabled so googleapis can stay enabled. With this ridiculous amount of scripts it'll take me an hour to figure it out. -_-
ETA: With all scripts running the pages are now constantly loading. Right now it's loading something to do with the liftdna script. My advice? Cut the scripts down to 5 or less because 30+ is unacceptable and problematic.
ETA2: Results from WebPageTest when I ran forum.xda-developers.com in it. Not sure if this has anything worthwhile in it.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120920_PK_NA6/
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If you allow *.xda-developers.com this should allow the proper scripts to run. The issue is that NoScript will allow forum.xda-developers.com to run, but not the CDN files hosted on another hostname.

bitpushr said:
If you allow *.xda-developers.com this should allow the proper scripts to run. The issue is that NoScript will allow forum.xda-developers.com to run, but not the CDN files hosted on another hostname.
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The only script like that I'm seeing in the list is xda-developers.com with no prefix.
I'm not sure what I did yesterday but it has been stuck in a reload loop since then. The last time it did this it randomly started up again.

Reloading Issue Resolved
After reading this thread I had an idea. I figured that the constant reloading was definitely due to a script-like extension. Although, I'm on Chrome. The culprit for me was AutoPager. Disabled that and everything loads no problem. Hope this helps some people.

Still stuck in a re-load loop for me both in Firefox 16 and 17 while using no script. Haven't been able to find a working combination yet without disabling the plug-in completely.

tier~ said:
Still stuck in a re-load loop for me both in Firefox 16 and 17 while using no script. Haven't been able to find a working combination yet without disabling the plug-in completely.
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Same here. Googleapis has to be loaded for full forum functionality, but it's what causes the reboot loop for me.

I've just gotten really good at hitting the stop button. Oddly enough, I'm not running no-script.

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This happens to me in Chrome (24.0.1312.14 beta-m) from time to time. A refresh / change of page usually makes it go away, but still annoying.
All extensions disabled and it still happens.

annoying
really annoying these constant reloads that are bugging me.
what an irony that a developer forum is not able to solve this :cyclops:

Still happening to me after disabling ABP and whitelisting XDA in noscript.

Same here...
Haven't been here for some time, but now that I upgraded FF to 17 (& have NS installed) the reloading problem happened to me too.

Use "Quick Theme Chooser" at the bottom of the page and change to "---- XDA 2013 Beta - 1024" theme.

Login requires googleapis?

Odd problem; I can't log in through a machine that has googleapis (google, googletagservices, google-analytics, and a whole bunch of other privacy-leaking places) firewalled; I can log in through a VPN connection that bypasses the restricted firewall, though, so it isn't a username/password issue.
Is this new? I never had problems at work before, and I admit it's no big deal to use a VPN the rare times I'm going to post, but I'd still love to know if anyone else is seeing this...

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Odd problem; I can't log in through a machine that has googleapis (google, googletagservices, google-analytics, and a whole bunch of other privacy-leaking places) firewalled; I can log in through a VPN connection that bypasses the restricted firewall, though, so it isn't a username/password issue.
Is this new? I never had problems at work before, and I admit it's no big deal to use a VPN the rare times I'm going to post, but I'd still love to know if anyone else is seeing this...
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Nothing should be blocking a login on the site, the only thing I've heard of not working is the search engine which also uses Google APIs. The login functionality is all internal to XDA so the only reason that wouldn't work is if you are inadvertently blocking those too. Whitelisting *.xda-developers.com usually fixes that.

Private DNS ad-blocking

I used to always unlock bootloaders, install TWRP, flash clean Android and load up AdAway until my latest S20 acquisition. The intention was to wait out the 2yr warranty period and then do it until I learned that ad blocking was possible using the Private DNS setting.
Over the first days of using my new S20 I was really shocked at the volume of crap blasting at me that AdAway was blocking in the past, so trying out Private DNS was a welcome relief (dns.adguard.com).
It's only been a few days since I've done this and I just applied the setting to the wife's (stock) Huawei P20 Pro, and yes a large volume of ads are now missing, a sight for very sore eyes.
Just wondering if others have had positive and/or negative experiences using Private DNS for ad blocking. I saw Pixel 2s were rebooting but I'm sure the latest versions of Android would have sorted this by now. I haven't experienced anything untoward so far but I'm a very light user and only had the phone 4 days.

Works great for me! No more Blokada, DNS66, et al. Been using this since my Note 9.
Install youtube vanced and you're all set.

Tried dns.adguard.com before but some ads were still going through so i stuck to blokada, but now it seems to work fine, no more vpn icon

Used AdAway on rooted devices too ... with dns.adguard.com i had no problems while using it .... if you want, try this.. dns.keweon.center ..which i currently use...also excellent DNS

No need to use VPN Ad blockers.
Instead of dns.adguard.com use nextdns.io
Get free account and configure it as You want, with many filters full loging etc. It's better than AdAway.
Then You can set private dns to Your custom nextdns config.

krogoth said:
No need to use VPN Ad blockers.
Instead of dns.adguard.com use nextdns.io
Get free account and configure it as You want, with many filters full loging etc. It's better than AdAway.
Then You can set private dns to Your custom nextdns config.
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Thanks for this tip.
I've just set it up after a week of quite successful dns.adguard.com ad blocking but I really like the enormous flexibility of nextdns.io and its (potential) threat protection, as well as the logging (in CH) and analytics. Reminds me of OpenDNS but with ad blocking as well!
I have recommended it to a friend with two younger boys, he might appreciate the content filtering side for them, but generally the one thing that has irked me about smartphones is the potential for accidentally landing on a new malware site even if it is unlikely to infect Android.

The problem with the any DNS or VPN based blocking method: Chrome will randomly stop functioning whenever I am connected to any wifi network.
It will just stop loading random sites, not show all pictures in Google Image search, not show anything anymore when you click back and forward or just stop loading anything at all.
Go to mobile connection, it immediately works. Disable the DNS/VPN blocker, it immediately works.
Reconnect wifi, it will work again for a while. Can be two days, can be ten minutes. It's completely random.
I am not able to figure out ANY reason why this is happening.
I know Chrome has its own DNS resolver and you should disable it when using DNS based blocking methods (disable async dns resolver and clear dns cache), and while this fixes the problem that not all ads are blocked in a reliable way, it doesn't fix the wifi connection loss.
Using DNS or VPN based blockers only cause problems in Chrome, no other app.
I know I could just switch browsers, its just that I use Chrome on desktop as well and like the synced bookmarks.
Does anyone have any idea why using a VPN/DNS based adblocker would cause Chrome to specifically stop working randomly only in a wifi network, but not via mobile?
I have had this issue over several devices and Android versions for years now and I can't figure it out.

fBx said:
Does anyone have any idea why using a VPN/DNS based adblocker would cause Chrome to specifically stop working randomly only in a wifi network, but not via mobile?
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Does it happen only on your home network? If so, are you using additional adblockers such as Pi-hole or dns.adguard..com as your router's default DNS?
Interesting that it happens only with mobile Chrome. Just another reason to stop using Chrome....

just use Disconnect Pro instead, Adblock through KNOX.

Sorry guys you all lying to urselfs... best adblock is still only via root available! Energized or AdAway is where it's at.

chieco said:
Sorry guys you all lying to urselfs... best adblock is still only via root available! Energized or AdAway is where it's at.
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Thanks captain obvious! Now go root my north american snapdragon s20...

Adguard for Android is nice, not the app store version either. It's on adguard.com
Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

[email protected] said:
just use Disconnect Pro instead, Adblock through KNOX.
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This is a fantastic solution!

[email protected] said:
just use Disconnect Pro instead, Adblock through KNOX.
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Thank you for this! I missed adhell so much since it worked through Knox as well. Right now I'm running private dns on my phone from adguard and I'm going to use this app along with it as well.

Just go buy a Raspberry Pi Zero W and throw an SD card into it, install Pihole on it and VPN into your home network. Most modern routers have a VPN server built into them, Samsung phones all have a VPN client built in, and you can get a Pi Zero for $10 (or under $20 bundled with an MicroSD if you don't have one lying around from an old phone).
No root or special software on the phone end needed, and once the Pi is set up it's plug and play.
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sublimaze said:
Does it happen only on your home network? If so, are you using additional adblockers such as Pi-hole or dns.adguard..com as your router's default DNS?
Interesting that it happens only with mobile Chrome. Just another reason to stop using Chrome....
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Chrome is purposely crippled to do this - there's even a dev flag to disable the behavior. It's the main reason I stopped using it and disabled it entirely. I went to Samsung's browser and have actually been really happy with it - the dark mode actually makes all web sites dark, even the ones that don't work with Chrome's.

Thank you.

Do you see any issues accessing very secure sites like banks thru the DNS blocks?

sublimaze said:
Does it happen only on your home network? If so, are you using additional adblockers such as Pi-hole or dns.adguard..com as your router's default DNS?
Interesting that it happens only with mobile Chrome. Just another reason to stop using Chrome....
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rustyram02 said:
Do you see any issues accessing very secure sites like banks thru the DNS blocks?
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If the blocker is doing its job correctly, it shouldn't have issues with any legit site. This actually protects you since most of the blockers also block malicious domains so if you accidentally click a phishing link it *might* keep you from getting to it.
The problems you WILL see if that sponsored results in search engines will stop working, because they route through an ad site rather than directly to the thing you want to go to. Once you get used to ignoring the top few results in Google, it's not so bad. There's also the issue of sites that block you if they detect an ad blocker. Most sites aren't smart enough to be able to detect a DNS based blocker, but if they are you will either not be able to use the site, or you'll need to turn the DNS blocker off or whitelist the site while you do.

Illrigger said:
If the blocker is doing its job correctly, it shouldn't have issues with any legit site. This actually protects you since most of the blockers also block malicious domains so if you accidentally click a phishing link it *might* keep you from getting to it.
The problems you WILL see if that sponsored results in search engines will stop working, because they route through an ad site rather than directly to the thing you want to go to. Once you get used to ignoring the top few results in Google, it's not so bad. There's also the issue of sites that block you if they detect an ad blocker. Most sites aren't smart enough to be able to detect a DNS based blocker, but if they are you will either not be able to use the site, or you'll need to turn the DNS blocker off or whitelist the site while you do.
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Yeah I stopped clicking the top search results a long time ago. I was an avid AdGuard user, but their app used too much battery. I changed my default DNS to dns.adguard.com and it blocks ads as well as their app, without the battery hit.

In 2017, I purchased two Adguard lifetime licences for $10/each ($20 total), one of my best purchased ever! Now the same license is $70/each.
Have not had a need to root and still no ads on our phones for years now!