Gif background showing in tablet but not desktop

Topic summary

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.

Hi there,

I have a section with gif background that is working when viewed on my tablet, but does not show up at all when viewed on desktop.

The section is the second to last section ‘Straight to your inbox’ https://hello-ea9a.myshopify.com/

Over desktop the section looks like this:

And on tablet it looks like this:

Any guidance would be super appreciated.

Thanks,
Aimee

Hi

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

Hope this can help you solve the issue

Best regards,

Victor | PageFly

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Hello @Aimee50

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?

Best regards,
GemPages Support Team

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Hi @Aimee50 , that is the issue of gif image, not related to desktop or tablet.

I tried open your store using Safari and it’s working but cannot load it on Firefox or Chrome

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