Moving Banners

[MeganCox]

I just found out that you can use GIFs in the Content Experience Widget so that your banners move. Does anyone know if there might be any sort of bandwidth issues with doing something like this. We have roughly 500 employees that might be accessing our intranet and I want to make sure that it won't mess anything up, but I don't know of any way to test it other than to just do it and hope for the best. 

[DylanBlumenberg]

Hi @MeganCox, one thing that comes to mind is using ATF's performance suite before and after the banner with the GIF is applied to see if there is a difference in the transaction times. If you see a consistent, significant impact in load times, maybe best to leave the GIF off or use a static picture. It's not load testing of hundreds of users at one time, but it might give some metrics. 

In my personal experience, if the GIF is small, something like 10 mb, I wouldn't expect it to have a noticeable impact to load times unless your users have very slow internet connections. 

[erichemmer · Accepted solution]

We have many customers with over 100,000 employees using EC Pro as their intranet.  You should be fine.  It may download the .GIF file (10 MB?) before it starts to play it.  So I wouldn't make those files any larger than they need to be.

[MeganCox]

The one we tested was 7MB, so that's a good reference number to keep it at! And I had our admin do testing in our sub-prod environments. With a static image, it was 8.4 seconds to load, and with the GIF it was 7.9 seconds. 

[erichemmer]

Usually the architecture will using caching too, so subsequent load times will be less than the original.  I agree that the users' internet connection speed plays a big role in this scenario.