Loading animation is the what you see on some sites before the main content of the web page is loaded. Thoughtful animations can entertain your users while they wait for your content to load and reduce chances for visitors to leave your site. Loading animation can be extremely helpful when a website is complex and its loading time takes a few seconds. So if you need some inspiration to add a preloader to your website, here are 52 Creative & Engaging CSS Loading Animation Examples.

Project Deadline

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Pure CSS The Carlton dance

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Endless Hallway

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SVG Car Drift Loader

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LEGO Loader

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Fire Loader

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Code Maker Coffee

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Cloudy Spiral CSS animation

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Loading Cat

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Glitchy Loading Indicator

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Authentic Weather Loader

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Dump Truck Loading Animation

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Loading Micro Animation

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Let’s load stuff

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Rainbow Loader

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CSS page loading

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CSS 3D Hartwig chess set (fully playable)

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Painted Loading Indicator

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Fireworks

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Loading Animation

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Hipster load

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Evil Loader

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Her – OS1 Loading

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Pikachu Loading Page

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Video Loading

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Floating Loading Animation

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CSS3 Loader Animation – Peeek

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Animated status indicator

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CSS Text filling with water

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CSS Flame Animation

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Advanced animation path

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Square in a circle – Loading Animation

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Mr JeellyFish pure CSS animation

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StarWars BB-8 CSS Illustration + Animation

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Newton’s Cradle Loader

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Redirecting Loader

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Delivery truck animation

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SVG + GSAP Glowing Jump Loader

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Clock Loader

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Pacman loading animation

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‘Making pancake’ loader

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Code Loader

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Hourglass Loader

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CSS Stairs Loader

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Corange Loading Screen

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Bookshelf loader

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FarCry 3 Loading Random Words

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Thingy

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Battery Charging Animation with Liquid

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Loading

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CSS Loading Bar?

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Loop the Loop

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