Literally every page goes into a endless 'loading' loop in the three browsers I can stomach using (FF, Chrome, Opera) -- the culprit seems to be these: https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/59268975/jquery_avatar_normal.png The number changes on each page, but none of those seem to want to load -- NOR do they actually seem to timeout. Of course that it apparently comes from some garbage CDN, on a subdomain that fails to resolve here, AND apparently involves THAT STUPID MALFING IDIOTIC BULLSHIT LIBRARY THAT PISSES ALL OVER EVERY SITE THAT USES IT... Well, let's just say it's not ENTIRELY a surprise.
Seems to be loading for me... Still having issues? What is your DNS server set to? I'll check against that one.
Using google DNS because Time-Warner's gets down on it's knees in front of the proverbial equine of short stature. (especially their sending you to their own 404 pages) So that would be 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Same DNS servers I use... I just forced a check against the DNS servers (so bypassing any local cache), and it seems to be resolving okay. twin1:/home/sandbox # dig @8.8.8.8 si0.twimg.com ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R7-P4 <<>> @8.8.8.8 si0.twimg.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47642 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;si0.twimg.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: si0.twimg.com. 250 IN CNAME cs107.wac.edgecastcdn.net. cs107.wac.edgecastcdn.net. 3276 IN A 93.184.216.139 ;; Query time: 37 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Wed Aug 21 19:01:19 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 86 Code (markup): Is it flat out not resolving for you, or a connectivity issue between you and the server?
Thing is it loads something if I try to access it directly, but when loading the page it hangs as if not resolving, but NEVER stops/timeouts. I watched the network traffic and it seems to resolve after all, it sends the request, but it never finishes. Watching the waterfall I noticed that it is indeed timing out -- the problem is that when one finishes it creates a whole new request at a different 'number'... so it's in a infinite javascripted reload loop. Which of course as I said before, with the idiotic halfwit BS of jQuery involved, I'm SO shocked.
Ok, pulled it for this thread, and it's reacting differently from the one I was testing on before in terms of the files, though they are coming from that same domain. Forty seconds in: http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/digitalPoint/waterfall1.jpg Around the two minute mark: http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/digitalPoint/waterfall2.jpg Those are ALL attempts at calling si0.twimg.com, from Opera 12. It's been this way for a few months, just never got around to mentioning it or looking deeper. (just been hitting 'stop' to make the page actually up and decide to semi-work... or browsing with scripting disabled at my workstation)
I was able to replicate what you are seeing with Opera 12... not sure why or what is holding the connection open since Opera says nothing is pending. I saw the spinning thing forever as well as Opera logging 3 requests for Twitter images (although if you click on each of them it says nothing was requested, which is weird it would repeat that 3 times). I upgraded to Opera 15, and the issue mysteriously went away on it's own. As far as I can tell it's just an issue with the old version of Opera. I think Opera 12 was about the time they added SPDY support, so I suspect it was also the time they rewrote their underlying network connection/transport system and might have just been buggy. Both the connection being held open as well as multiple requests for single images doesn't seem to be an issue in Opera 15.
Which you couldn't pay me to use that pathetic piece of crippleware. I wanted Opera with the Blink rendering engine since I actually use all the extra stuff that comes built in -- NOT a crappy slower version of Chrome with the Opera logo slapped on it. Once sites start to fail en-masse in Opera 12/earlier, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do for a browser since even with every FF extension I can think of I can't even come CLOSE to the functionality I rely on daily in Opera... that are just GONE in Opera 15. If I wanted pathetic crippleware, I'd be using Chromium.
Well either way, whatever the issue it, it appears to be specific to Opera 12... and being a "false" issue even within that version since the thing spins but Opera says nothing is pending. There might be something specific in it that is causing the issue (like this site using the SPDY protocol), but not sure there's a lot that can be done without Opera developers fixing whatever it is.
Maybe this is unrelated, but at times when FB has loading issues with their site, their like button at the top of the forum makes the entire forum load forever. It just keeps showing the loading loop. Happened to me two or three times by now. I never use the generic javascript share buttons at the top of my sites. If any of those sites is having an issue it will reflect on your site too to the point that even AdSense ads won't load until all the share buttons do.