My site is loading not secure grey circle ?

Hi today and happy Friday !

I have a littl eproblem searching the last three days for a solution but not found one.

I have a domain on google cloud vm with hestia panel and Let's Encrypt ssl.
But my site is loading the first milliseconds with grey circle (not secure)- then after that, the site loads full secure ssl.

Here a mini video screen from me so you can see that on ms edge browser, the same on chrome but it loads way faster.
What is this ? Is this normal ?
I do not know what this is and how to fix it.

link video screen here you can see it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IgKHiAN0PEM

What I have done:

wordpress replace plugin http- to https://thismarkus.com
mixed content fixer plugin
force ssl in wp-config
force all http to https in theme functions. phph

I hope you guys can give me some tips what this is and how I can solve it.

Thank you so much and happy friday !

It happened to a site of mine a few months ago.

Did you use Cloudflare SSL +Lets encrypt?
Double-check, this might be the issue. With proper configuration of Letsencrypt you should face no issues. But you may want to change the flexibility of Cloudflare SSL to strict or full strict etc Test things out until something that's compatible with your server works out.

As far as I know, Letsencrypt is for server sider and should be enough while CF is for browser side.

Else I will rather just inform your host about this issue, let them help you out.

crystalwiz;

thank you for the tips !
this domain is on google cloud vm self host....I can try contact google support about this.
ssl is self generated let's encrypt from Hestia Panel.

This error I had the last 7 days on interserver too, they were very ignorant and not answered my Ticket questions, they said, " we have installed new ssl on your web host dashboard all is fine" they were not able to fix this or could tell me what this is. Such a good web host, I canceled the plan. Overall scam, shady tricks fraud on web hosts today overall.

OK back to topic , I see some website son the web have this too, you do not know what it is and how I can solve it ?
Ao many new changes today since great reset but bad not good, for me it looks like that the browsers today will accept only premium ssl certs not free let's encrypt, I hope not.

Maybe I must check some settings on hestia panel to fix this ? My root domain in Hestia panel has an alias
with www, maybe this is the cause of it ?

And by the way in my domain registrar DNS I have a hostname A record (test.mydomain.com) to the google cloud vm ip address.
When I login tomy Hestia panel with the hostnameit is not secure too.

Maybe wrong domain and ssl setitngs in Hestia panel ?
I not use cloudflare on this domain. I use only 4G LTE network (mobile wifi on my 2012 mac mini)

So my web host says it is not an unsecure error per se, so you see in video screen, the ms edge browser is a little bit slower than chrome as example, so the grey circle is showing the first milliseconds the browser try to build the connection.

Maybe it has to do that I use 4g LTE network (hotspot wifi) daily for my internet.

Have happy weekend

so problem on my other (main) domain solved I changed to Hostxnow web hosting and now website loads without error in browser.
on the thismarkus.com domain problem is not solved I think it has to do with the Hestia Panel ?

Before I had these web hosters:

Interserver and ionos wordpress hosting (europe) - they clould not solve this problem.
This cause had to do with the hosting settings/ configurations maybe ?

But you know it after the web host order to see if their hosting configuration works fine or they support, not before.
That is so important to reading reviews here or on webhosttalking, or lowendtalk, before buy any web hosting services.
Why so many web hosting providers can not give good working solution and service?

But what is this when this error comes up on some web hosting providers?
A client from me has his websites (multiples andmultiples domains) on ionos germany hosting, he has the same problem with th egrey circle in browser= druckring(de), sites loads very slow because he uses Elementor propage builder a lot, this cause slots ofrender blocking scripts.

So with that in mind ionos isnot so ideal for web hosting your site with them.

Happy weekend to all here !

When I lick on one of the google seo results, then every website loads with secure padlock.
But when I type a domain in the browser url bar, most sites loading first milliseconds with grey circle or some with triangle (on android mobile chrome) then loading full site with padlok.

So when I see for few milliseconds grey circle because the brwoser needs a little bit to build up the connection.

Have happy weekend