Size of GIFs about is-now-illegal HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi guys, thanks for your ideas!

I just deployed a new version with the optimizations you suggested.
I removed some frames and applied compression using gifsicle.

The new gifs will now have only 1.2MB instead of 5.1MB!
That will have huge impact on the server costs, for sure!

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Gifsicle sounds like a good idea to start with - i've just tested it and it reduced the 5MB of https://customsticke.rs/media/TEST.gif to 3MB of https://customsticke.rs/media/TESTgifsicle.gif with gifsicle --optimize=3

UPDATE: 2MB - https://customsticke.rs/media/TESTgifsiclelossy80.gif with gifsicle -O3 --lossy=80 from https://github.com/pornel/giflossy/releases/tag/lossy%2F1.82.1

UPDATE#2: 1MB with half frames - https://customsticke.rs/media/TESTgifsiclelossy80halfframes.gif (with https://customsticke.rs/media/gifsicle_remove2.sh - modified version of https://gist.github.com/aug2uag/0906c80efb9fd6067b54)

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Have you considered using .webp ?
It's a lossless animated picture format.
For http://isnowillegal.com/?legality, I tested with http://www.online-convert.com and the size is half than gif

.gif 4.9 MB
.wepb 2.39 MB

But of course, optimizing the gif (losslessy) and dropping some not-important frames will generally help

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@manuel-di-iorio I think the problem with WebP is the poor browser support: http://caniuse.com/#feat=webp

How about using some video format? Video formats don't work in <img> tags... as noted in WebP FAQ.

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