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55MB was the (large) GIFs. Maybe HTML5 video would've been better. Disregarding that, 10MB is still pretty large, though.



That "maybe" is a definite "definitely". I would not be surprised it using video would make it 5.5MB.


Not to mention, they could be lazy loaded since they only play when you mouse over them...


Gfycat (http://gfycat.com/) is a fantastic solution to this -- it loads HTML5 video or an animated gif depending on what the client supports.




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