Large parts of the internet are struggling to load right now, possibly due to an issue at Cloudflare.

The internet infrastructure service has confirmed issues, and is investigating the problem as we speak.

We think this could be what's causing a similar outage at Twitter, with many other popular websites seeming to stutter too - here's what we know so far...

Interestingly, Cloudflare had earlier posted that it was planning "scheduled maintenance" on some of its servers - could this have caused the issue? (I think those nasty CMEs were at least partially responsible.)