What is 60 fps?
Also called: Frame rate, Smooth animation
The short answer
60 fps means the screen updates sixty times a second, the baseline for motion that looks smooth; each frame has about 16 milliseconds to be ready.
What people say: “buttery smooth”.
60 fps, explained
Animating transform and opacity keeps work on the GPU compositor; animating layout properties like width or top forces recalculation and drops frames.
Questions people ask about 60 fps
What is 60 fps?
60 fps means the screen updates sixty times a second, the baseline for motion that looks smooth; each frame has about 16 milliseconds to be ready.
Related terms
Jank is visible stutter when a page cannot draw frames in time, making scrolling, animation or typing feel choppy.
Scroll-driven animationScroll-driven animation ties an animation's progress to scroll position instead of time, so elements animate exactly as far as the reader has scrolled.
Smooth scrollingSmooth scrolling eases the page's movement so scrolling glides rather than jumps, either natively in the browser or with a library that interpolates scroll position.
Page speedPage speed is how quickly a web page loads and becomes usable, measured by metrics like Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint and layout stability.
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