For some reason my homepage is displaying older content to certain users. So much so that content from many months ago is displaying in their browser even though the html content is currently completely different. I suggested a clearing of the cache but the problem persists. Has anyone come across this problem before and what solutions were used to solve this?
Are you using Wordpess?
If so you may have installed a plug-in at some point called Hyper Cache or something similar, turn it off and then tell them to refresh the page,
Aside from that It could be a DNS issue with crap hosters (happened to me only the other day)
Can you give us a URL etc to check out?
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I've made a website which displays images hosted on other sites using the html src="http://......" tag, however sometimes some of the images won't load. This appears somewhat random, and I don't think it is a problem with the links themselves.
I display a lot of images, so I am wondering if this is a common problem when trying to load many thumbnails from another site. Is the best solution to host all the thumbnails on my own server, and if so, is there an efficient way to do this (so I don't have to manually download and link to every image)?
Thanks
Is way better to host it on your own server.
Because if are all from other servers, you must connect to all servers and download it.
It causes worse response and increase the time required to load the page.
To the image and links downloading - I think it is possible, just go on google and try to find some advanced html page downloader. I had one and it worked directly the way you want. - can't remember the name..
(also sorry for my bad English)
OSX 10.8.5
I have images on my site hosted on my own server (not hotlinked) that aren't appearing in Firefox (26.0). It's just empty space where the image should be.
Troubleshooting with Firebug, I found that the image urls are different than what they're supposed to be. Instead of just src="img/Pic1.gif" it's something like src="http://website.net/img/xPic1.gif.pagespeed.ic.A2br4BiDEK.png". This has to be the reason the images aren't appearing, no?
I looked up what PageSpeed is, but I've never used it before. I guess I should disable it, but as you can see on the page I linked that it requires knowledge of apache? I have zero knowledge of that and would like to avoid it for the time being if possible.
Does PageSpeed just come as a part of Firebug? I disabled Firebug and refreshed which did not bring the images back. Will other visitors to my site not see the images on Firefox as well? If so, how can I possibly solve this?
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I'm also using Google Analytics, in case that is relevant..
Pagespeed is not the reason for the disappearance of my images, so although I didn't solve my problem, I'm closing this question as the title is no longer relevant.
Starting this afternoon, with the introduction of Chrome 31.0.1650.48, many web pages are displaying with random formatting errors. I've confirmed this on both Mac and Windows machines running the most recent auto-updated Chrome release (31.0.1650.48).
This problem is affecting thousands of pages, and to immediately rule out our server generating different information, you can try this to reproduce the problem:
Visit this Google cache page with Chrome version specified above: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nt70v_rn5BwJ:alaskanmalamute.rescueme.org/Idaho+&cd=61&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Notice what dogs are displayed and where they are.
Reload the page several times and observer closely.
You will randomly see one dog listing in the middle of the page, then two dog listings, the dogs move around, the menus around the dogs move around. Each time the page is reloaded Google is corrupting the source code in different ways, resulting in major formatting issues. (NONE of this code is generated outside of Google's cache.) All the pages on the www.RescueMe.Org have this problem, I'm using a cached page on Google's server in this article for an example since it proves it is not a server issue.
This sample page should remain the same every time, and be formatted correctly. It isn't.
Google Chrome (when viewing source) seems to be making random changes to the page (Chrome is dropping < or > at random places in source code) causing major display formatting issues.
Can someone reproduce this? Hopefully the folks at Google know about this issue, or someone here can escalate it with them?
Best wishes,
Jeff
can confirm - it seems to mostly be an issue with iFrames.
VisualForce iFrames in Salesforce break the entire layout.
Version 31.0.1650.48 on Mac, all addons removed.
In case someone else runs into this issue, I've narrowed it down somewhat. Chrome/31.0.1650.48 will randomly scramble the placement of tables on a page if the following two things happen:
1) You start the page like this: and do the reverse at the end: (doesn't have to be face=arial, any font setting or even just does the same thing).
2) Include some tags within the page containing various tables.
3) Magic! (not good magic, though) Each time your tables will randomly move about the page. Here's an example to try: http://server1c.rescueme.org/testb (Reload this page several times in in Chrome/31.0.1650.48 on Windows or Mac to see the tables jump around.)
THE SOLUTION: Start the page like this instead: and do the reverse at the end: (in other words, reverse placement of the center and font tags). Here's the "fixed" version of the page above with just those tags reversed: http://server1c.rescueme.org/testbfixed
While this is a Chrome bug, I feel this is worth keeping in Stack Overflow because this bug is breaking a lot of major sites, and programmers may want to know how to reprogram their HTML so those who have affected versions of Chrome won't have a confusing experience.
FYI... There are other ways to cause and solve this problem, but I'm trying to present here just the simplest method I found.
I recall some very rare instances of seeing major websites (Amazon, Facebook, etc.) either not downloading a CSS file or not applying the rules, causing the page to look like this:
I've been tasked to provide an internal explanation after we received a complaint email with an attached screenshot from a user of one of our websites showing the same effect. The screenshot contains sensitive user information, so I'm unable to post it. But it shows that inline styles are being applied, but any style referenced from an external CSS file isn't being applied.
Unfortunately, I am unable to reproduce this issue, and other than just saying "styles aren't being applied", I am coming up dry with a detailed explanation and I would love to understand it myself.
I would appreciate any input on why this might happen, or reference to any articles. Even if someone knows what this event is called, I would be happy to go research it, but as of now I'm coming up blank.
There are more than one scenarios under which this can occur:
1) bandwith issues : as italo.nascimento mentioned, a slow connection, where your HTML is downloaded but your CSS is timed-out so you're left with a naked HTML page (happens often also when a website is under DoS or has many many visitors and the server can't keep up with the traffic)
2) caching problems : something is changed in your HTML, but the CSS is served from the browser's local cache so the selectors don't match...
3) FOUC : It's not really similar to what you're asking, unless the printscreens were made during the page load.. It's called Flash of Unstyled Content.
In general 90% of these kinds of problems are cause by connection issues. Dropped packets, TimeOuts, CDN's not working properly.. And as they are random I don't think you can "reproduce them" - it's not something that can get fixed.
Happened to me lots of times in major sites.
Mostly, it happens when Internet connection is very slow or oscilating, so the files doesn't load correctly from the server (packages get lost) and the site is showed in pure HTML. Maybe you could reproduce it by limiting your bandwidth and reloading the page.
Firebug lets you edit individual web pages locally, with live updating so you can see the effects of your changes right away. Unfortunately, these changes are lost after the page is refreshed.
Is there any way to make these changes "sticky" in some way, such that repeated visits to the site would reload your own customized html/css that you edited? I'm thinking perhaps some sort of Firebug feature that I'm missing, or another plugin of some sort...
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about websites I have server side access to. I would simply like to be able to reposition the content of some pages I visit frequently so it fits better on my monitor setup, which I can do in Firebug but I have to do it every time the page loads (I would like to be able to avoid having to do that).
You should make use of the Greasemonkey and / or Stylish addons for Firefox.
These where originally developed to do exactly what you intend to achieve.
Also check out this article on how to get started with Stylish.