Find out what input delay is, and learn techniques to reduce it for faster interactivity.
Jeremy Wagner
Interactions on the web are complicated things, with all sorts of activity occurring in the browser to drive them. What they all have in common, though, is that they incur some input delay before their event callbacks begin to run. In this guide, you'll learn what input delay is, and what you can do to minimize it so your website's interactions run faster.
What is input delay?
Input delay is the period of time beginning from when the user first interacts with a page—such as tapping on a screen, clicking with a mouse, or pressing a key—up to when the event callbacks for the interaction begin to run. Every interaction begins with some amount of input delay.