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Any experience with Cloudflare? Initial page load VERY slow

         

csdude55

5:33 am on Sep 27, 2023 (gmt 0)

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I'm experimenting with Ezoic, and step 1 is to change your nameservers to the ones they assign to you. They use Cloudflare.

Since doing that, though, I've discovered a problem that they claim to not be able to duplicate.

If I leave my site open for awhile (go eat dinner or whatever) and then come back to it, the tab is fully unresponsive. I can move my mouse over it, but there are no hover changes and nothing is clickable.

If I refresh the page, it will run for about 90 seconds before asking if I want to exit the page. If I say no, it will just keep trying to refresh forever. If I say yes, it will crash the page; THEN I can refresh it with no problem.

Occasionally, I don't get that option to exit the page, and the only solution is to close the tab and reopen it. Then all is well.

This happens whether I have their ads enabled or not, and I've had it happen using Chrome, Firefox, and on my mobile device. It also happens whether the tab with my site is the main tab (meaning, it's in the background while I'm using another tab). The only thing left that it CAN be is Cloudflare.

Any suggestions?

phranque

6:11 am on Sep 27, 2023 (gmt 0)

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the network charts (for timing resource requests) that are available in the various developer tools of your favorite browser should be helpful here.

csdude55

7:09 pm on Sep 27, 2023 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, @phranque. Here's where I am now, using that information.

This was in Firefox. I opened a tab that had sat dormant all night. I went to F12 > Network, then hit Refresh on the page.

I immediately saw thousands upon thousands of requests flying by that looked like:

Status: 204 No Content
Method: POST
Domain: mysite.com
File: greenoaks.gif?orig=1&ds=foo
Initiator: beacon

After about 3000, they turned red and showed:

Transferred: Blocked

After about 2000 of those, the red went away and I had 6 more with "204 No Content". THEN the page request loaded!

So greenoaks.gif appears to be the issue, and that has to be Ezoic... not Cloudflare, after all.