Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated]

Google Blogger Featured Image

Last updated on April 17th, 2023 at 12:56 am

Read Time:2 Minute, 4 Second
We have recently been having issues with our site loading the CSS, backgrounds and menu options, especially when using Google Chrome. This means that when a visitor was coming to the site, they would either get a random page, blacked out menu bars and now options to our other posts down the left hand side, which is frustrating!

Having finally found some time to look into this, the solution was very simple so we thought we would share this with you if you too are having issues with your Google Blogger site not loading correctly.

If you log into the administration area of your blog, on the left hand side you will see an option for Template:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 1

Click this and you will then see the options for changing the setup of your blog. You should then click on the Backup / Restore button found at the top right of this page:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 2

From here you can backup your current blog template just in case something goes wrong. Click on the Download full template button and this will download the XML file that will be your blog backup:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 3

Once you are happy that you have a blog back, you should then click the Edit HTML button:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 4

You will then be presented with the backend HTML code for your blogger site. If you are not familiar with HTML code, please do not be too overwhelmed by what you see…it looks more complicated than it actually is and the change you need to make here is very simple!

When you can see the HTML code, you should click anywhere in the box to make it live, then on your keyboard, press CTRL+F to bring up the search box:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 5

In this search box, you should enter the following:

 setTimeout(function()  

Then press enter. This should find the code in the HTML that you need to change. You will see this code just below what you find:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 6

The only part of the code you need to change is the 0 in this section of code. It needs to be changed to 500. So your code should then look like this:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 7

You should then click the Save template button at the top left of the code box:

Google Blogger site not loading correctly [2022 Updated] 8

Then you should notice that when you or your visitors go to your blog site, it will always load first time, everytime correctly!

If you need any assistance with this at all, please leave a comment and we’ll reply when we can.

Click to rate this post!
[Total: 1 Average: 5]

Free Subscription

If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to our free subscription service and you will receive an email when a new post is live.

Join 441 other subscribers.

No need to worry, we will not be filling your inbox with spam and you can unsubscribe anytime you like.


Leave us a message...

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.