Safari - Pages Not Loading

Thanks very much! I have tried a couple of hours to solve the problem and found your suggestion with DNS. It worked at once with me!

Open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS

Click + and type:

208.67.222.222

Click + again and do the same.

208.67.220.220

Click OK.

Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

I had this issue too. I thought my 2009 MacBook had gone kaputt. So I purchased a new MacBook, and still had the issue. My pc, iPhone and other devices had no issue downloading webpages. After trying everything on the internet to resolve it I, finally purchased a robust wifi router and it remedied the situation.

Hi Bill ..

Might be a cookies, cache, or extensions issue ..

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.

Click: Remove All Website Data

Then delete the cache.

Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

Type or copy paste the following

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

If nothing above helped, try this DNS server.

Open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS

Click + and type:

208.67.222.222

Click + again and do the same.

208.67.220.220

Click OK.

Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

Safari 5.0.1 or later: Slow or partial webpage loading, or webpage cannot be found

If I haven't used Safari in a while the first time I try to load a website the progress bar "sticks" and no page loads. Clicking the X and then refreshing sometimes gets the page to load, or just trying any other site can normally "gee" Safari to work. Its a pain, as once it does start working it normally doesn't have any problems.

Just to let you know that i tried what Carolyn suggested (up to the DNS stuff) andI have to report Safari seems a lot more responsive now.

You're welcome 🙂

Thanks for the tips, Carolyn - I tried them both, but none worked for me.

Do you, or anyone else, have any other suggestions? My Safari 6.1.6 load pages extremely slow, pictures etcetera doesn't load at all - or pages won't load at all, get timed out or get the "Safari can't open the page" window (even on apple.com !!). Also tried the Safari's suggested Reset, to no avail. These problems started gradually after updating to Safari 6.1.6 - I'm still working on OSX 10.7.5, also got another, older, iMac side by side running perfectly on OSX 10.6.8 where Safari 5.1.10 runs without any problems at all (I have a fast internet connection over Ethernet and Wi-Fi). Anyone got a clue? Thanks ... Robert

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me too... All my pages load perfectly, except for the ones I am trying to join at Apple Support Communities. Whenever I click on a link (e.g. for tutorials etc) , I just get a blank page without even a message to tell me that the page won't load. Any tips on what might be wrong there?

The steps in the related article at the bottom fixed it for me (Safari 8 - though it would come and go with 7). Other browsers always seemed to be working at the time.

Try a different DNS as the article notes or copy and paste the terminal command to turn off DNS Prefetching

Safari 5.0.1 or later: Slow or partial webpage loading, or webpage cannot be found - Apple Support

My employer didn't want me to mess with the DNS, so I skipped to the Terminal instructions - copy and paste this in the Terminal app:

defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false

and then quit and start Safari again.

Laz

Hello. Did you ever fix your problem because I have the exact same thing as you including 6.1.6 and OSX 10.7.5? The pages will open fine but without any pictures. I tried everything she suggested and nothing has worked. Thanks. Marc.

Thanks Carolyn! This fixed it for me!

Thanks Carolyn. This helped me too, brilliant! Just a question if you pick this up. The Cache.db is now in my Trash but I can't empty the Trash as I get an error message 'The operation can’t be completed because the item “Cache.db” is in use.' Any suggestions?

I'm in the same boat.

I've tried deleting cache and cookies, but it did't work for me.

After surfing some websites, I found some tips that worked for me.

Go to System Preferences,choose network

Click "advanced", go to the "Hardware" tab, and click on "configure", choose "manually"

Click on mtu, change it to "custom" and set the mtu number to 1453 (I dont why but the number is something like a networking secret from ancient times)

regards,

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