onclick cursor for page load

We’re using a kiosk display of our website in Chrome in our shop. The full-screen nature of the kiosk means that progressbars and status displays aren’t visible so would like some visual indicator of activity after a link has been clicked.

This would be something we’d want to happen on every link that leads to another page (not really relevant to expanding elements within a page as they are near instantaneous).

As it is, after clicking a link there’s no indication anything is happening for a second or two before the next page appears and it would help customers and prevent them from repeatedly clicking while waiting for the page to load.

We’re working on deploying a local version of the site on a local server which will improve the latency for the kiosk but there’ll still be that moment after a click which we’d like to show some activity for.

Any hints or tips where to start on this? Some reading suggests that WP strips out onclick events, but I’m not sure if that’s just for HTML content via the editor, or if it’s something deeper in the code.

tia