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Yong Jin Goh
3,790 PointsAnimated gif background causing lag on Ipad Air any work around?
Hi guys,
I am using method 'CSS-Only Technique #2' from the site below, but with an animated GIF:
http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/
The GIF is relatively small (around 500KB) but it's causing my site to lag a lot when scrolling down / upwards. The div containing my text is actually loading / refreshing as if lazy-loading (I am not using lazyload plugin) when scrolling fast.
It takes a while for the my paragraph to load, and in the meantime the background animated gif freezes.
Is there any workaround for this?
The issue above disappears when the animated gif is replaced with a static image -- I'm quite sure it's the animated gif causing the lag here.
Anyway seems like this issue is only for iPad.
1 Answer
Caroline Hagan
12,612 PointsYong Jin Goh do you have a live link so we can take a look / test?
Alexa Booth
4,586 PointsAlexa Booth
4,586 PointsYou could try reducing the size of your image, 500kb is pretty big, I know GIFs are intensive . You could also try serving as a looping video...