A user reports a GIF background displaying on tablet but not on desktop for their ‘Straight to your inbox’ section. Multiple support representatives investigated and identified the root cause:
Issue Identified:
The GIF file itself is broken/corrupted on Shopify’s CDN server
The problem affects both desktop and tablet, not just desktop as initially thought
Browser-specific behavior: works in Safari but fails in Chrome and Firefox
Recommended Solutions:
Re-upload the GIF file to fix the broken CDN link
Compress the GIF to maintain a smaller file size
Use the newly uploaded GIF as the background image
The issue is confirmed to be with the image file rather than CSS or device-specific rendering problems.
Summarized with AI on November 24.
AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
This is Victor from PageFly - Shopify Page Builder App
I checked on the page, and I found that the issue is because of the gifs itself. I tried to access the gifs on the Shopify CDN server but it is not working. The gifs on desktops are now undefined
Can you try like upload the gif again? Also, compress it to make sure the gifs stay at the small size.
After that you can use the new gif to use it as background-image
I checked the above link and found that the gif image link is broken. Currently on both desktop and tablet no gif background is displayed. Can you try uploading the gif again?