Meta: Webpage crash on Safari
Is anyone else having trouble accessing the site through Safari? I just keep getting the "website crashed". I have cleared history and website data and even turned off and restarted my iPad. Nothing works.
I am typing this on my Motorola cellphone through the Google app right now and that is working fine.
Any suggestions?
November 5th, 2023 at 3:27 PM ^
This website does not work if more than 18 people try to use it at the same time.
November 5th, 2023 at 3:31 PM ^
Yes, I gave up on Safari, although clearing my cache has usually helped.
November 5th, 2023 at 3:33 PM ^
No but it takes like 60 seconds
November 5th, 2023 at 3:50 PM ^
This has been my experience as well.
November 5th, 2023 at 5:38 PM ^
I was having this problem by accessing a bookmark I’ve had in my iPhone for a decade. I freshly typed in “www.mgoblog.com” and it worked fine, so I updated my bookmark and have had no problem since. I’m guessing it was a http -> https translation that was causing a hang.
November 5th, 2023 at 8:56 PM ^
This is exactly what I had to do.
November 5th, 2023 at 3:34 PM ^
Mine is still working, but I get times where it’s super slow to load initially. It isn’t consistent
November 5th, 2023 at 3:39 PM ^
It’s been terribly slow at Best over the last couple months on safari mobile. I’ve switched over to Brave.
November 5th, 2023 at 3:46 PM ^
I am typing this on my Motorola phone…
Any suggestions?
Upgrade your StarTAC
November 5th, 2023 at 3:51 PM ^
Hardy har har. It's the apple product that is the issue.
November 5th, 2023 at 5:37 PM ^
Sorry, couldn’t resist! :)
I haven’t had any issues using fox Pro on my iPhone
November 5th, 2023 at 4:03 PM ^
Only works for me on private browsing mode. Too many large form files I guess is what Seth said
November 5th, 2023 at 4:48 PM ^
Same problem. I have the chrome app on my phone too and use it for mgoblog now - it’s the only way I can read the site from my iPhone.
November 5th, 2023 at 4:51 PM ^
I’ve had the problem. If I clear the cache for the last day or two, things go back to normal….which is that things are on the slow side. I have more frequent issues with using my iPad than with my iPhone.
November 5th, 2023 at 4:53 PM ^
It’s been fine on my phone, but on my desktop, it takes forever to load.
November 5th, 2023 at 5:06 PM ^
Safari works fine on my aging iPhone
November 5th, 2023 at 5:18 PM ^
I find that chrome is slow, too. I've had better success with the opera browser
November 5th, 2023 at 5:33 PM ^
I have issues with mgoblog not loading all the time on Safari. I go in and delete the cookies and it clears it right up.
November 5th, 2023 at 6:16 PM ^
Same problem here on Safari
November 5th, 2023 at 6:26 PM ^
The site seems to be teetering on the verge of collapse. Sometimes, it completely fails to load at all. Not reliable on either Safari or Chrome. Surprisingly, Safari has been better than Chrome over the last 48 hours.
November 5th, 2023 at 6:38 PM ^
Same issue here. Site will load maybe 30% of the time on my phone.
November 5th, 2023 at 6:44 PM ^
I faced this same issue on my phone but chrome fixed it.
November 5th, 2023 at 6:48 PM ^
Accessing from safari has been slow for a week or so now. Can’t do it anymore. Working fine on chrome now
November 5th, 2023 at 6:57 PM ^
I just downloaded the Brave browser and use it only for mgoblog. This works fine
November 5th, 2023 at 11:25 PM ^
This is the way.
November 5th, 2023 at 9:07 PM ^
I guess I’m glad it’s not just me!
November 5th, 2023 at 10:26 PM ^
It works on my iPhone but I usually have to switch from wifi to cellular data (or visa versa). That seems to get it working. I do not have to do that with any other website.
November 5th, 2023 at 11:35 PM ^
I am not a web developer, (I do digital marketing), but I often work with them.
I ran this page (/meta-webpage-crash-safari) though webpagetest.org to see what it is going on.
First off, the performance of the page is... ahem... abysmal. It takes 33 seconds to get to Document complete. And 36.7 seconds total. Total download size is 2.2 Megs.
There are 800 Dom objects that need to be downloaded. Given this is a message board, but that is still lot of objects.
Looking at the Waterfall breakdown, I see a lot of ads and tracking pixels. Using Ghostery, I see 95 tracking pixels total.
I also see a lot of 30x redirects, many due to ads. They slow you down. Some redirects are unavoidable, but others could be optimized.
I did not see too many fat images. But I did noticed the Instagram image is 350K. I also noticed that background image of the UM Stadium takes a long time to load in the background.
In summary, the likely reason you are having problems on Safari on iPad is this site is pig, and your browser can't handle the big numbers above.
Recommendations to MGoBlog
1. Rethink your ads strategy. Reduce the number of Ad pixels. Just use the ad networks you really need.
2. Optimize that Instagram image. It should be about 30K. Also, remove the pointless background image of the UM stadium.
3. Simplify your page design.
BTW, this page is pretty simple. The UFR pages are the worst performance-wise. (Of course I love the content).
Actually, I am an iPad user as well, and I have pretty much given up viewing it on the iPad. And I am seeing problems with Safari on my MacBook Pro as well.
November 6th, 2023 at 4:51 AM ^
What is a “motorola” cell phone? ;)