How to refresh a view without flickering effect on all brows

Question

Hi I have a requirement that i need to refresh a MVC view after every 2 seconds , so what approach can i use i have done it using javascript function it works well , but on IE and firefox it gives flickering problem, My view does not contain only the static data instead it is calling a controller method which shows the count of users after every two seconds . below is the approach i am using 

<script type="text/javascript">

function timedRefresh(timeoutPeriod) {

setTimeout(function () {

location.reload(true);

}, timeoutPeriod);

}

</script>

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2" />