The GIFs we'd be talking about would be 80x120 pixels. There are 15 posts per page. This means that, at a sort of "maximum", with 4 animated character parts of 10 frames each and an animated background of 10 frames, for every poster, and assuming the same person doesn't post twice, that's 750 frames at roughly 1 KB per frame.
0.75 MB. Should take less than 2 seconds on an average download speed.
And of course, once it's cached, it's cached -- it doesn't need to download everyone's avatar every single time you view it.
0.75 MB. Should take less than 2 seconds on an average download speed.
And of course, once it's cached, it's cached -- it doesn't need to download everyone's avatar every single time you view it.