SpinThatShit is a small set of Sass mixins coded and released by Matej Kustec to create loaders and spinners based on a single HTML element.
Freebies tagged loading
Loaders.css is a delightful and performance-focused loading animations collection made with pure CSS.
Loaders.css – Loaders collection
A set of 12 loaders built purely in SVG, no CSS or JS. Created and released by Sam.
12 free SVG loaders
A set of minimal loop preloaders created with vector shapes and provided in AI, EPS, PSD and GIF formats. Freebie released by Marina.
Minimal loop preloaders
A set of Tumblr-style cog loaders created with pure CSS and SVG icons based on an icon set designed by Jiri Silha.
Tumblr-style cog loaders CSS
Exclusive
A nice CSS loader inspired to VSCO made with few lines of HTML and CSS. Coded by Andreas Gillström.
VSCO – CSS loader
A set of page loading effects that use SVG animations with Snap.svg. The idea is to show an overlay with a interesting shape animation.
Page loading effects with SVG
Set of animated preloaders, that was made using simple shapes and trendy colors. GIFs, PNGs and AEP project are included into the file.
Flat preloaders set GIF
Loading is a collection of simple SVG loaders and spinners created and released by Jxnbln.
Loading – Set of SVG loaders
Here is a CSS snippet for creating a nice water filling text effect that you can use for preloaders and such. Coded by Lucas Bebber.
Water filling text effect with CSS
Pace.js is a new plugin for easily showing fancy progress bars while is your website is loading. Pace will monitor your ajax requests, etc.