Average Animated Gif File Size. Everything Ive read recommends no more that 400 KB for best practices and some ESPs say not over 250 KB. Default 128 Colors 128 Grayscale 64 Colors 64 Grayscale 32 Colors 32 Grayscale 16 Colors 16 Grayscale.
It will show you the file size underneath the optimized GIF. So for example a GIF of 1000 pixels high x 800 pixels wide x 200 frames 800000 pixels x 200 frames 160000000 bytes 160MB. Here are some average speeds for different file sizes on different connections based on our own experiment.
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Keep in mind media will appear mostly on small screens or smaller messaging windows. GIF files tend to be quite small 20Kb. Each separate frame image should be no more than 20 kb and it is recommended that the total size of the animated GIF file does not exceed 1000 kb. GIF JPG PNG BMP WebP APNG HEIC FLIF AVIF MNG Max file size.