3 Reasons Why It Is Time to Onboard Users with GIFs(medium.com)
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3 Reasons Why It Is Time to Onboard Users with GIFs
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The flipside is that pages like this blog post load so slowly on public wifi that the gifs may as well be static images. In short, this is a pretty terrible idea unless you're actively trying to eliminate people who don't have good network connections.
Author here. We make an effort to compress the GIFs to make them suitable for slower network connections. Our tests and feedback from users haven't shown this to be an issue yet. A possible fallback is indeed to use static images for users with slow connections. But, the users we are targeting don't have this problem, so we aren't too concerned :)
But when your target users are in airport lounges they do. :)