redirect-progress-bar

Component responsible for displaying the indicator, in form of an animated progress bar, when user is navigating to the other page. It gives the user impression that something is being loaded in the background and he should wait for the next page to be loaded.

Introduced in version: v19.6.0

Preview:

Open

Technical details:

It is as simple script that adds animated element to the page on beforeunload event, and removes it on pagehide event (see page lifecycle diagram for reference)

Related template:
src/Magento_Theme/templates/head/redirect-progress-bar-script.phtml

Related configuration (on/off switcher):

src/etc/view.xml -> redirect_progress_bar