diff --git a/bookmarks/services/website_loader.py b/bookmarks/services/website_loader.py
index 5d00f6d..fef0d5b 100644
--- a/bookmarks/services/website_loader.py
+++ b/bookmarks/services/website_loader.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
 
 import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from charset_normalizer import from_bytes
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -33,5 +34,11 @@ def load_website_metadata(url: str):
 
 
 def load_page(url: str):
-    r = requests.get(url)
-    return r.text
+    r = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
+
+    # Use charset_normalizer to determine encoding that best matches the response content
+    # Several sites seem to specify the response encoding incorrectly, so we ignore it and use custom logic instead
+    # This is different from Response.text which does respect the encoding specified in the response first,
+    # before trying to determine one
+    results = from_bytes(r.content)
+    return str(results.best())