It's with that horrible reality in mind that we regretfully inform you that the spinning "loading" icon we all know and hate is officially called the "throbber ... often animated GIF or AVI ...

A quick Google search defines GIF as “a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static ... it has the potential to have a slow loading time, regardless of how they ...

One that immediately erects an image ... loading wheel that appears on computers is unbelievably called a ‘throbber’. According to the PCMag encyclopaedia, a throbber is: “An animated ...

An animated image - the animated GIF being the most popular format ... These issues can be addressed via a technique called 'lazy loading', which displays a relatively small placeholder image ...