# Intermittent Loading Issues When Navigating Between Top-Level and Child Categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-loading-issues-when-navigating-between-top-level-and-child-categories/366607
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** install
**Created:** [May 18, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-loading-issues-when-navigating-between-top-level-and-child-categories/366607 "2025-05-18T18:46:48Z")
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### Author: ![Steve\_John](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steve_john/32/435022_2.png) [@Steve\_John](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steve_John)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intermittent-loading-issues-when-navigating-between-top-level-and-child-categories/366607/1 "2025-05-18T18:46:48Z")

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We’re experiencing inconsistent page loads on our Discourse forum while navigating between top-level categories and their respective subcategory pages. Sometimes the content loads as expected, but other times it requires a manual refresh for the content to appear.

Additionally, we’ve enabled the breadcrumb component, which also fails to display on certain pages and its not inconsistent unless manually refreshed.

Our setup:

- No multi-level category structure
- Hosted on a Linux VPS with 16GB RAM (no evident resource bottlenecks)
- CDN is enabled
- we have custom theme and few plugin and components have be installed.

We’re looking for guidance on:

- What might be causing these inconsistent load/render issues?
- Could the CDN or any client-side caching be interfering?
- Are there specific server/client configurations, plugins, or theme components that we should examine?
- How can we ensure that category content and dynamic elements like breadcrumbs consistently load without requiring a refresh?

Any insights or recommended troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated.

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