When it doesn’t load, the page halts. I have several times seen the effect of the popular free analytic tool Google analytics’ unreachability, which often causes sites to stop loading entirely. Below is the same effect of a Webtrends breakdown on Microsoft.com. (It was like that for several minutes, and it didn’t redirect to the actual download).
December 27th, 2007 at 10:32
I’ve had the same experience with some of the ad-exchange systems. In IE7 this will cause the browser to freeze, making it impossible to activate / use other tabs while the http request times out :(