27.5MB, of which 27MB is five GIFs. Please don’t use GIFs like this. Use videos: they use less bandwidth, use less power, look better, and annoy your “I don’t want videos to autoplay!” users less.
Autoplaying (without the possibility of sound) is a feature, It's a huge aesthetic boon to the web. GIF is an entirely different conceptual flavor to video. It's good precisely because people almost never fuck with the fact that it autoplays.
When I say I don’t want things to autoplay, I mean it. Please don’t try to second-guess me. I don’t want anything autoplaying.
That GIFs autoplay is unequivocally a bug. Just a well-entrenched one that would take a lot of effort to fix, and no one capable of fixing it seems to quite think it’s worth it.
There are multiple reasons I might not want autoplay: bandwidth or performance concerns, accessibility problems from motion, or even just the simple “if you autoplay, then when I reach it it won’t be at the start of the video any more”.
Unfortunately it’s not that easy. Images (animated or not) go through a very different pipeline to videos, and it would be a lot of work to make animated images behave like videos.
