> I developed the opinion that putting a spinner into your site at all is a sign of incompetence This so much. If your site is so slow that it can load what is

> I developed the opinion that putting a spinner into your site at all is a sign of incompetence This so much. If your site is so slow that it can load what is usually a video file (non-SVG animated graphics) before it can load the text on the page, then you have failed at making a website Looking at Discourse® here, and iirc Google AMP did something similar except it was a blank page for 8 seconds (until it hit a timeout) if you blocked their tracking