Screen flashes white between pages, Chrome, not IE or FF

I’d just add that I could live with the Chrome behavior (reluctantly) if I could just get the “flash” color between pages to be something other than white… like, for example the background color.

That’s the behavior I observe here: https://boingboing.net/ (don’t know what CMS they use.) Boingboing flashes equally between pages in Chrome, IE and FF… but at least when the content disappears, and the blank screen appears between pages, the blank screen holds the background color, so it’s not as bright and annoying.

They use WordPress, but what you’re experiencing is how different browsers handle the Internet. Unless you can speed your site up, that’s what happens on almost every site in the world.

Yes, I understand that this is a browser difference. And Chrome may just be a bad browser (unusual because until recently it has been faster than its competitors).

But I’m asking if there is any known reason why WordPress should behave worse on Chrome than on the others when, for example, this difference is not seen on another site that probably does not use wordpress, like boingboing.

BoingBoing uses WordPress.

https://boingboing.net/2011/07/24/bb-gets-wordpress-disqus-new-machines.html

It’s not and it is WordPress, though. You’re using a program that sometimes takes longer to load becuase the server you’re on is slow. Satic, simple, small, HTML would go faster and have less of a flash. The bigger your site, the slower your site, the longer the flash.

OK, I was wrong about boingboing. Thanks.

I appreciate your answer, but it does not explain the difference between Chrome (bad) and FF (good) and IE (great).

FF and IE have ZERO white flash between pages….

Not a WordPress problem? OK, I guess that’s true.

It’s KIND of a WordPress problem. It’s like gas milage, y’know? It’s your car, it’s the gas, it’s the road, it’s the driver, and it’s the weather.

For websites, all of that translates (kinda) into the following:

Browser
Theme
Server (Speed, cache and optimization)
Your computer

Okay? So SOME browsers cache a lot more information than others (IE) and other browsers keep a more dynamic transient cache (FF) and then others honor your server and site settings (Chrome). In addition, the way you build your site causes them to handle data differently.

It’s not a simple answer. WordPress, being PHP driven, can slow your site down, but so can a lot of traffic on your site.

So can I do anything to get a little less “respect” from Chrome and get it to cache more?

I don’t want you to explain personally, but is there a location that talks about optimizing WP for faster downloads?

For example, I have 6 posts displaying. Would I be better off with just 3? >>> https://artofepilepsy.com

Would I be better off putting google analytics in the footer instead of the header?

OK, I see the problem: Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha is quite slow on my server, at least.

If I switch back to Twenty Eleven 1.3, Chrome still flashes, but it is MUCH faster.

Must be all those widgets and things in Suffusion. Of course when I switch to twenty eleven, I also lose the ads since those were mods I made….

But the flashing is within an acceptable speed limit without Suffusion. Too bad.

That’s why I listed themes ??

You can speed up your site with caching plugins (try WP Super Cache) and minimizing your CSS and JS (there’s a plugin for that too, Minification).

The more dynamic your theme, the more PHP and the slower.

Thanks very much!

I know this is an old post, but i came across it when searching for a solution to the chrome flash. The answer is to put a style tag with a background color into your html tag. That will change the color chrome flashes.

It’s invalid code, but it works. See here:

https://thesis-blogs.com/annoying-white-flash-during-page-transitions-in-google-chrome/