Safari can't load specific websites

Hello everybody,



so for the past couple of weeks I've been experiencing the following problem: on both my iMac late 2010 and Macbook Air 2009 Safari is unable to load / connect to certain websites (about 20-30% of the pages I visit). If I try navigating to a specific page, I often get the "can't find server" error message. The websites Safari can't open seem to vary randomly - I might suddenly find myself unable to access a page that worked perfeclty fine a minute ago, and vice versa. De- and reactivating WiFi sometimes helps, sometimes it doesn't.


Also Safari at times loads websites incompletely, with the entire website format distorted and all images missing, replaced by those blue "?" symbols.


What is interesting though is that I do not experience these problems when opening the very same websites at the exact same time using another browser, such as Chrome or Firefox.


I already reset Safari and emptied the cache, deactivated all addons / plugins and made sure that both my OSX and Safari are the latest version available. I'm at a loss here - at first I thought it might be a general internet / wifi problem, that was until I found out that everythings works just fine with other browsers.


I hope you guys can help me! Of course I could just switch to Chrome or Firefox, but in my opinion Safari is vastly superior to these two so I'd really prefer keeping Safari.

Posted on Mar 3, 2014 1:57 AM

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Nov 23, 2014 4:53 AM in response to RickTheRigged

HI all,

seems I meet this problem after I upgrade to YOSEMITE, for example some website (www.codeporject.com) can't load completely and some can't load , and I try to solve it by add the auto detect proxy,

you can set the it bye safari->preference->advance->proxy->auto detect proxy.

although, it is still a bit slow I think , but now, it can load the pages completely. my version of sarfari is 8.0 .

Aug 13, 2015 8:03 AM in response to Ashvini.sharma

I agree, shame on Apple. I have been an apple obsessive for over 10 years and find now that their unreliability and dodgy support does does justify any longer their high prices and they will lose me as a customer. I have the highest spec macbook pro and find the majority of websites since I uploaded Yosemite don't load or load extremely slowly. I also have iPad and iPad Mini, iPhone, iPod in largest size, shuffles. Thats over £3000 worth of stuff......


The Apple behemoth is losing it's way. It used to be great - super fast and reliable and importantly didn't crash. Apple relies on people who relish good design and functionality. If the functionality suffers then their premium place in the market does too.


Time to start start exploring other manufacturers.


Angry Apple user....

Mar 3, 2014 5:18 AM in response to RickTheRigged

1. Empty Caches


Safari > Preference > Advanced

Checkmark the box for "Show Develop menu in menu bar".

Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar.

Click Develop and select "Empty Caches" from the dropdown.


2. Reset Safari.


Click Safari in the menu bar.

From the drop down select "Reset Safari".

Click "Reset".


3. Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and all other website data:


Press “Remove All Website Data” button


4. Turn off Extensions if any, and launch Safari.

Safari > Preferences > Extensions

Jun 7, 2014 12:40 AM in response to RickTheRigged

I'm having the same issues... took me awhile to get into this post, because (ironically) Apple.com is one of the sites that Safari just will not load for me. Again, I can open these same pages in Chrome or Firefox with zero issues, THEN - after refreshing - I can get it open in Safari.


All of the above suggestions have been tried, as well as others from the various threads I've found in the Communities and elsewhere online.


What's even more interesting is that this exact same problem exists on my iOS devices... Safari won't load the same specific pages on my iPhone 5 or iPad Air (iOS 7), but Chrome or other 3rd party browsers will.

Feb 22, 2015 1:41 AM in response to cdlike74

Hi there


Exactly the same issue after upgrading to Yosemite. rightmove.co.uk will not load in Safari or Firefox and I don't really want to remove all my website history etc. as I will have to set up all those passwords again.


Tried the "proxy" fix but that didn't work for me unfortunately.


Installed Chrome and now that website loads fine.


Bit of a work around - so hopefully the issue will be resolved by Apple.

Oct 1, 2015 3:10 AM in response to dominic23

Dominic23's response appears to work for me for a time. Ive completed the process three times in all now. But after a day or so Safari reverts back to not being able to load certain webpages. This is ridiculous. What on earth is going on?

Ive also tried the setting my proxy settings to automatic, but this has had no impact on safari's ability to load webpage.

Getting kind of sick of having to repeat the same steps every other day to load webpages using safari. I even switched to used a windows machine the other day just to get my work done.

Sort it out apple! We're all obviously having the same issue.

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