The default spinner UI element is not very friendly and it's not easy to know that loading is in progress.

It looks out of place when the page is colourful and nicely styled like the page at https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/events

Spinning loader UI element

Could we style something and also consider screenreader accessibility to inform people that the page is on its way, using some standard LGD tokens to apply colour?

More and more people will be using AJAX whereas traditionally facets have required a page reload and so we haven't seen this UI element.

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Both of the loading throbbers we have in Drupal are gifs.

  1. web/core/misc/loading-small.gif
  2. web/core/misc/loading.gif

Maybe we could substitute those with animated SVGs or something?