How do I make my animated banner gif optimized so my website loads faster?

Store Design

Topic summary

Main issue: optimizing an animated banner so it loads quickly without losing visual quality.

  • Asset details: an animated GIF created in Canva, sized 2500 × 900 px and 256 KB. The creator feels further size reduction noticeably degrades clarity and sharpness.
  • Attempts so far: used several online resizer tools; converted the asset to a video and set it to loop. Neither approach achieved the desired balance of speed and quality.
  • Requirements: keep the animation’s crispness while ensuring fast page load and immediate image appearance.
  • Request: suggestions for alternatives, apps, or workflows to optimize the animation effectively.
  • Context provided: a live example is available at https://dalexidesigns.uk/.

Key terms: animated GIF (an image format that supports simple animations and can be large); looped video (a video file that repeats playback).

Status: no responses or solutions yet; the question remains open.

Summarized with AI on December 15. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello everyone,

I have designed this banner which has animations on it and I have exported it as a .gif file. I use Canva for my graphic design and the current banner size is 2500 x 900px and it is currently 256KB. I know the size of the file is very high and I have tried to reduce the size but it looses the quality of the animated image. I have tried many resizer sites to get it as low as I can but no luck. I have also changed the file to a video file and try a “loop” still doesn’t work.

My question is there a way to keep the clarity, sharpness of the animated gif but also making sure when someone loads up the website the image appears as fast as it can?

I am looking for alternatives, apps, ways anything that would work.

Thanks for taking your time to reply!

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Here it is: dalexidesigns.uk