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Frame rate is the speed at which a device produces consecutive images to a screen. A low frames per second (FPS) means that individual frames can be made out by the eye. A high FPS gives users a more responsive feel.
You’re probably used to this concept from the world of gaming, but it applies to the web, too.
Long image decoding, unnecessary image resizing, heavy animation and data processing can all lead to dropped frames, which reduces the frame rate, resulting in janky pages.
We’ll explain what exactly we mean by "jank" shortly.
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