Web infrastructure provider says it has implemented a fix after users had seen ‘a large number of empty pages’

A host of websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and Downdetector went offline on Friday morning after fresh problems at Cloudflare.

Cloudflare said shortly after 9am UK time that it was “investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs”, referring to application programming interfaces.

The internet infrastructure provider said users had seen “a large number of empty pages” as a result. It added shortly after that it had implemented a potential fix and was monitoring the results.

A number of websites and platforms were down, including the Downdetector site used to monitor online service issues. Users reported problems with other websites including Zoom, LinkedIn, Shopify and Canva, although many are back online.