While working on any design project, one needs to focus even on the minutest detail to grab the attention of the viewers and keep them engaged. Elements like icons, widgets, colors and likewise should be chosen with extra care to gel well/correspond with the overall design.

When one opens your website, it is not always that the page loads speedily; sometimes one has to wait for the page to load. While the server is processing the request and a page is loaded, it becomes vital for the designers to come up with loaders and spinners that keep your viewers attention otherwise they can leave the website and jump to the other one.

To ease the job of all you web designers out there other creative minds out there has worked hard and come up with the free preloaders and animated spinners and made them available so that you can use the same in your current or upcoming design projects.

Here we have come up with some really creatively cool free preloaders and animated spinners for you to check out and use. Even if you are planning to design preloaders and spinners, the following examples with the CSS3 code will help you get the clear idea as to how you can design the same. Check them out!

1. SVG Loaders

A set of 12 loading icons and small animations created by Sam Herbert that are built purely in SVG.

2. Load Awesome

Daniel Cardoso made some of the most awesome yet free CSS loaders and spinners.

3. Loaders.CSS

Another useful collection of loaders and spinner made purely in CSS, no SVG required.

4. CSS Spinners

A collection of 17 free CSS spinners made with CSS and minimal HTML markup and can be used on any side with few lines of code.

5. Single Element CSS Spinners

Created by Luke Haas, this free CSS loading spinners are not just useful but looks beautiful too. Using CSS3 new features, especially animation featured, these loading spinners can be used in your web design project with a simple piece of code.

6. Pure CSS Loaders Kit

A collection of 8 beautiful spinners and loaders made purely in CSS by Viduthalai Mani.

7. Parrot Preloader

Created by Judith Neumann, this beautiful parrot preloader can be used in different web design or mobile app projects.

8. Unanswering Call

Created with love by Dan Andréasson, this uniquely designed preloader will surely be the centre of attraction of any preloading page.

9. Pure CSS3 Loading

Another beautiful yet free loading spinner purely built in CSS3 by Clear.

10. CSS Loading Spinners

7 loading spinners built in CSS to create smooth animation and no jQuery is used.

11. Bar/Ball Loader

A beautiful colorful loader that has rectangular tiles and set by a motion with the help of the small rotating ball. Created by Alex Hall, this loading animation is perfect those designers who want to use it in colorful website.

12. SpinKit

Spinkit is a collection of simple loading spinner that used CSS to create smooth animations that can easily be customized according to your needs.

13. A Pen by Patryk Mozdzanowski

Uniquely designed preloader that you can use in your dynamic projects.

14. Current Indicators

Creation of Sandro Walet, this beautiful indicator created in CSS could be used as a preloader of a website or mobile app.

15. Another Simple CSS Load Animation

Paul Sullivan has created an awesome loading spinner that can be used for any circular logo or type to make it extra pretty.

16. Preloader (Free.AEP)

Download this free preloader made by Volodymyr Kurbatov in AEP format.

17. GIF Preloaders (Free Download)

A set of 9 awesome free GIF preloaders made by Mantas Bačiuška that you can download and use in your web design projects.

18. Spinners

Created by Zevan Rosser, these spinners are based on CoffeeScript and Saas that will surely look unique on your loading page.

19. Spin.js

A simple loading spinner that is built in jQuery and you can change some of the parameters like lines, rotation, direction, speed, trail, etc.

20. CSS3 Preloaders

Another set of best free CSS3 preloaders that you can find on CSSPortal.com. Just click on the loader you like and view the source code to incorporate that into your website.

21. Preloaders.net

Rather than a single or a set of preloaders, this website features more than 700+ free preloaders and animated spinners that you can download in GIF format for free. If you need the source file, you’ll have to buy it.

So, did you all liked our hand-picked collection of free preloaders and loading animated spinners? So, cut the waiting time with the above pinned preloaders and loading animated spinners!