Make the Impatient Wait: Free jQuery Preloaders
Looking for ways to improve users’ experience on your site? If content and image loading is still your headache, look through today’s collection of free jQuery preloader plugins below and maybe you will find an effective remedy.
Have you ever noticed how beautifully the images are loaded on some websites? At first, we see some kind of a loading icon, which informs the visitor about the progress in an eye-pleasing manner. The image is faded in only after its complete download. Undoubtedly, such a technique is beneficial for website performance. Will you stay on the website showing no signs of activity or fragments of content? Maybe it is out of operation and you simply lose precious time…
jQuery preloaders won’t let the users leave your website. They add interactivity to the page, thereby creating the illusion of visitors’ engagement, which relieves irritation caused by actual delay.
In previous years preloaders were mainly flash-based, but today jQuery and CSS3 have replaced the obsolete technology. This shift has made preloaders easier to use, yet saved their style. Besides, they are perfectly rendered in all modern browsers, which is not less important. So, if you want to make the users’ online experience better, consider the following Free jQuery Preloader Plugins as a quick and easy solution that really works!
PreloadJS makes it easy to preload your assets: images, sounds, JS, data, or others. It provides real progress information when available and allows multiple queues, multiple connections, pausing queues, and so on.
jQuery Plugin that Preloads Images
This plugin is a good choice when you need to preload images for a better user experience. Don’t make the users wait to hover over the navigation menu before the background image appears; don’t keep them waiting too long when they switch a slideshow anymore! This plugin can also be useful when you want to add more images to the page through an ajax call.
jPreLoader – A Preloading Screen to Preload Images
jPreLoader is able to create a preloading screen for your website before all the images (including the ones in CSS) are fully loaded. It is very convenient when you wish to preload all images on your page before showing them to the user.
You can also create a Splash Screen during the preloading process to promote your products, introduce your project, display game instructions or advertise something to amuse the user during the waiting time.
Caching Images with JavaScript and HTML5 Progress Bars
This loader informs the user how long it will take for the page to load and display. It demonstrates the percentage of assets that have been loaded, and when the bar reaches 100%, the content is revealed. This helps to prevent images from appearing half-loaded.
Moomba Preloader jQuery Plugin
Check out Moomba Preloader jQuery Plugin and make sure in its utmost efficiency.
This jQuery plugin triggers a callback after all the selected/child images have been loaded.
This is a tiny image preloader using deferred’s promise object. The plugin has AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) support.
Use this JavaScript file for preloading images & CSS backgrounds as well as multiple background images. Make sure to load it up together with jQuery as it is a jQuery plugin.
Here you can learn how to create an animated preloader using CSS & jQuery.
Here you will find out how to create CSS3 animation loops that can be used for many purposes, such as preloader for images with jQuery.
jQuery Cycle Plugin in fact is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects like pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers, and much more. It also supports but does not require, the Easing Plugin.
Here are 3 simple yet smart CSS3 Loading Animations, able to keep your visitors interested.
