Problem loading large animated GIF images [edited title]

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By the way, is it absolutely necessary to include a width and DPR and fit for these videos? It seems like not forcing a resize (just using https://www.datocms-assets.com/53444/1733259443-new-modal-test-improvements-in-measure-mode.gif?auto=compress,format) makes the operation go somewhat faster and not time out. Could that work too?

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I spoke to Imgix, and unfortunately their answer is basically what I said above:

  • Big enough animated GIFs (i.e. large animated screenshots will always risk timeouts, if they are big enough)
  • You can reduce the possibility of timeouts by not forcing a resize (i.e., don’t include fit, w, or dpr at all and just use auto=format,compress)
  • You can also just serve the original asset at full size with NO parameters at all, then it won’t go through the transformations and risk a timeout

For this use case though, I still believe a video might be more appropriate? I think it will be higher-quality, use less bandwidth, and start loading sooner. Want to consider that? Happy to look into the implementation with you, if that would help?

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That are good suggestions, thank you for your time.

I also think that opting for a video would be better in this case.