SPIKE: Investigate "ghost page" after clicking Exit this Page button

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What

Investigate a possible Exit this Page feature to create a "ghost page" the screen upon button activation before navigating to the next page aka: when the user clicks the button, the screen immediately goes white and then navigates to a new page.

Part of #1755

Time limit: 1 week

Why

This is a feature idea that emerged following the analysis of the Exit this Page research. The idea being that users on slow connections won't have the contents of the page they are leaving on their screen whilst the button handles navigation.

The team are mostly confident about this idea as an enhancement, but there are some unknowns:

• Does the ghost page need some text?
• Does the ghost page need a visual progress indicator of loading such as a spinner?
• Would the ghost page functionality still work if the button was treated like a normal link and we didn't block standard functionality using e.preventDefault?
• What are the risks of the ghost page functionality breaking and leaving the user with a screen they can't interact with?

Who needs to work on this

Developers, Designers, Accessibility specialists

Done when

• Investigate ghost page feature implementation and write up findings/proposals
• Implement proposals, if any