why could my website be 'loading' twice?

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or at least that's what pingdom says, and i think it's a pretty reliable service,

Notes:

APACHE: php & mysql
No iframes

htaccess:

#Gzip
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x- javascript application/javascript
</ifmodule>
#End Gzip


# 480 weeks
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"
</FilesMatch>

# 1 weeks
<FilesMatch "\.(js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>

RewriteEngine On


ErrorDocument 500 /oohps.php
ErrorDocument 404 /where.php


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.keepyourlinks.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://keepyourlinks.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.keepyourlinks.byethost32.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://keepyourlinks.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^keepyourlinks.byethost32.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://keepyourlinks.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^keepyourlinks.com/pre/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://keepyourlinks.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^piscolabis.info$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/keepyourlinks.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://keepyourlinks.com/$1 [L,R=301]


#Webs Sueltas

RewriteRule ^facebook-likes$ fbmate.html
RewriteRule ^api_webmasters$ API.php



#Options +FollowSymLinks



RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^keep/(.+)/(.+) link1.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^article/(.+)/(.+) ?tipo=questions&que=view&id=$1
RewriteRule ^file/(.+)/(.+) ?tipo=files&que=view&id=$1
RewriteRule ^user/(.+)/(.+) ?que=usuario&id=$1

RewriteRule ^categories/(.+)/(.+) listarenlaces.php?id=$1

I am just looking for possible causes

@ToniMichelCaubet: You need to indent code with 8 spaces instead of just 4 if it's inside a list. Seems to be a bug in the markdown editor that it doesn't do it automatically. — ThiefMaster, Mar 20 '12 at 10:39

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '12 at 16:34

Has nothing to do with your .htaccess

Perused your site code. You've got this little bit in your "Last Activity" section:

<img src="http://keepyourlinks.com/" width="30" height="30"/>

... you're loading your whole page again in an image tag.

More context, to help you find where it's being generated:

<div class="comentario">
    <a href="http://keepyourlinks.com/user/736/laroma">
        <img src="http://keepyourlinks.com/" width="30" height="30"/> laroma
    </a>
    <span class="suave"> ha comentado </span>
    <a href="http://keepyourlinks.com/keep/186577/deshidratacion">deshidratacion</a>
    <span class="fecha"> 72 dias:</span>
    <p>
        La deshidratación es la pérdida excesiva de agua respecto al agua que se ingiere. El European Hydration Institute (EHI) es una fundación creada con el fin de avanzar y profundizar en el conocimiento acerca de la hidratación humana y sus efectos sobre la salud, el bienestar y el rendimiento físico y cognitivo.
    </p>
</div>

how did you see it? reading the code or did you use some tool? thanks a lot! — Toni Michel Caubet, Mar 22 '12 at 21:00
Well, I started off with the assumption that that was the problem (or something similar), so I just did a search for your domain in the source until I found a tag that was attempting to load it improperly. I made that assumption because it was clearly loading your entire page again without *re*-loading your page, so I knew there had to be some element that was grabbing it. — Jason, Mar 22 '12 at 23:28
This also happens with $.ajax(), and as someone mentioned below, with background:url(); Thanks for the comment, helped me lots — bysanchy, Apr 02 '16 at 18:50

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 26 '14 at 23:07

This is old, but I just had a similar problem. The issue was with the css in a div's class. I had a background:url(); as a placeholder (intending to supply an image later) but forgot about it.

With a blank background url, the page loading twice issue occurs with FF19. I noticed the issue using LiveHTTPheaders. Haven't tested with other browsers/versions. Removing it fixes the issue. Adding it back reintroduces the issue repeatably.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 20 '17 at 12:43

Just want to share my situation with the same problem.

I had forgotten line of code, which created div element with inline style for background image and it used undefined variable:

style="background-image: url( <?php echo $image_url ?>)"

This printed error message into style instead of url and that element loaded my page second time, so views counters increased by 2 each time. Found it accidently when fixed other stuff.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 10 '20 at 17:03

In my case, only "/index.php" and "/" were loading twice every time they were accessed.

This happened because I had the following line in my Virtual Host config file (apache) at "/etc/apache2/sites-available/":

<VirtualHost XXX.localhost:80>
    FallbackResource /index.php
</VirtualHost>

After I removed the "FallbackResource" line, everything worked as expected. No more double loading for the links/pages I've mentioned above.

why could my website be 'loading' twice?

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