Opinions on loading screens between pages loading on-site?

If you've got something that performs well, just has a lot of moving parts that you can see between page loads depending on what you've scrolled through; is that bit of jS loaded before your/while your main content loads a bad thing?

User experience would benefit a lot from this, so would the professional feel I believe...

Let me hear some criticism, I'm sure there's some method to the madness that you guys know about.

Never liked loading screens, but then again I´m old.

RoiBox said:

Never liked loading screens, but then again I´m old.

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I really agree but if you seen what I was having people witness you'd agree with a loader, I don't know what Rocket.net and a good performance plugin will do to be honest.

I made a 95% opaque full screen white loader with a 0.5 sec min & max load time with a nice on-brand blue animation using this plugin to get the task finished light and right using just CSS instead of slowing down or breaking my site at this stage with faulty jS and PHP.

You can kinda see what I'm dealing with if you look at the "Brand" GeneratePress template and a lot of hooked elements, the menu was a nightmare to figure out... But I got it.

Edit: Just realised we've got these options with the plugin:

Special preloader
How to add different preloaders to different page/post of your site.
Show meta box Show preloader meta box
Displays a text box in the page/post editor, where you can paste the preloader shortcode.
Preloader Shortcode Generate preloader ShortcodeCopy to Clipboard
How to set preloaders for different data types, for example a different preloader for products.

If loading the moving elements doesn't slow down the main content, it can improve the user experience and make the site feel more dynamic. However, it's important not to overload the site with animations that could slow down page loading. It's better to use asynchronous loading so the main content loads first, and additional elements load as needed.