# Show a loader starting page for slow connections?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-a-loader-starting-page-for-slow-connections/42981>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [22 Aprile 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-a-loader-starting-page-for-slow-connections/42981 "2016-04-22T11:00:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [2 Marzo 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-a-loader-starting-page-for-slow-connections/42981/7 "2017-03-02T16:06:07Z")

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If we did that for initial page load you’d get quite a bit of a [Flash of Unstyled Content](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content) effect that I suspect would look much worse.

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