# ftlabs/fastclick

Polyfill to remove click delays on browsers with touch UIs

Repository: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fastclick
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-08-13T16:01:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5315, "days_push": 1846, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 18518, forks 3121 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:26.757823+00:00)

## What it is
FastClick is a small JavaScript polyfill that removes the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing of a click event on mobile touch browsers. It was developed by FT Labs and widely used in the FT Web App, though modern browsers have made it largely obsolete.

## Use cases
- remove 300ms tap delay on mobile browsers
- make mobile web app taps feel instant
- eliminate click event lag on iOS Safari
- improve responsiveness of touch UIs on older Android browsers
- polyfill click events for legacy mobile web apps

## When to choose
- supporting very old mobile browsers (iOS 3+, Android 2+) that still have the 300ms delay
- maintaining a legacy codebase that already depends on FastClick

## When to avoid
- targeting modern browsers, since Chrome 32+ and late-2015 Safari no longer have the delay
- starting a new project, as the library is unmaintained and may introduce bugs
- you can simply use the viewport meta tag or touch-action: manipulation CSS instead

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, mobile-development
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: polyfill, touch-events, click-delay, mobile-browsers, legacy, mobile

## Member repositories
- ftlabs/fastclick (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:26.757823+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:02:01.384274+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:26.757823+00:00, sha 159b022776a1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.