The little blue progress bar at the bottom of the address and search bar are working just fine on my Safari 8.0, but if the page is already cached there isn't time for it to display.
The progress bars work as you describe. It's the Status Bar (View > Show Status Bar) at the bottom of the window that seems to no longer work.
Clearly, I am missing something, but what?
Harv 27" i7 iMac (10.13.6), iPhone Xs Max (12.1)
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