Global Internet Disturbance: Cloudflare Glitch Causes Blank Pages Across Multiple Websites

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Widespread Cloudflare Outage Triggers Blank Pages on Numerous Sites Worldwide— like X, LinkedIn, Zoom, Canva etc., but also caused a widespread problem where many websites served “empty pages” or blank/500-error pages instead of normal content

  • Cloudflare reported that many sites were returning a “large number of empty pages” — particularly when using a “List API on a Workers KV namespace.” 

  • The outage began early morning (UTC) and lasted roughly 20–30 minutes before a fix was rolled out and services began to restore. 

  • Users reported common symptoms including: blank website pages, “500 Internal Server Error” or “Bad Gateway” messages, inability to log in or load site content, and missing functionality across affected sites.

  • According to Cloudflare’s status updates, the disruption was not due to a hack or a cyber-attack — instead it was triggered by a change to how their firewall and internal logging/feature-file configuration was handled, which caused some backend systems to malfunction.

Why many pages ended up “empty” or showing errors

  • The problem seems to have involved Cloudflare’s internal systems — specifically the part that serves data from its “Workers KV” storage system. When the outage hit, many requests routed through Cloudflare ended up returning empty responses or error codes, rather than the actual website content. 

  • For sites that depend heavily on Cloudflare for caching, routing, security (CDN, DDoS protection, firewall, etc.), this meant they effectively went “dark” — even if their own servers were fine. 

  • The scope was very large because Cloudflare serves a significant fraction of the web — so a glitch in their edge/CDN or API systems can ripple out broadly, affecting dozens or hundreds of sites at once. 

What was impacted — beyond just “down/downloading”

  • Apart from social media and collaboration tools (X, LinkedIn, Zoom, Canva, etc.), many finance and trading platforms (in some regions) experienced downtime — users couldn’t log in, load pages, or execute trades due to connectivity issues linked to Cloudflare’s outage.

  • Some users reported that even services meant to track outages — like Downdetector — themselves were affected. 

  • For a brief period, many websites served blank pages or HTTP 5xx error codes, essentially making them unreachable or non-functional. 

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