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How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users

In today’s age of instant gratification, making users wait too long for your application to load is a user experience issue. If users get the feeling that your application loads too slow, they’ll grow impatient, and spend their time elsewhere. While there are technical things you can do to speed up load times, some feature-rich applications have no choice but to make users wait a while in order for the application to work properly. When you’ve optimized your application all you can and it still feels slow, there’s a way you can speed up your user’s sense of time to make them feel like your application loads faster than it really does.

When an application is loading, users will typically see a progress bar on their screen that gives them a visual indication of when the application will finish loading. The way your progress bar moves and animates affects how users perceive the load time of your application

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