You don’t want your emails to end up in the Junk Mail folder of your recipients’ mailbox. Blocking GIF’s is an easy way to weed them out. The reason is simple, a lot of newsletters and spam emails contain GIF images in them. Some email server administrators set the spam rating on emails with GIF’s to be higher than regular text-only emails. In addition, your recipient will be using more bandwidth to receive the email, too.Īlthough this seems like a minuscule cost, when you have 100 employee’s and every single one of them is sending animated GIF’s with every email, this can add up. Uses More BandwidthĬontinuing on from the previous point, since the size of the email signature is bigger, this means you’ll be using more internet bandwidth to send the email. In a previous post, we explained how an oversize email signature could cost you upwards of $25,000. So, using an animated GIF means your email signature size will be bigger, and this is a really bad thing. As you can probably imagine, the more frames your GIF image has, the bigger the size. The reason is that a standard PNG image only has to hold the information of one frame, whereas an animated GIF needs to store the data for multiple frames that are in the animation. The size of animated GIF’s is a lot greater than single frame JPG, JPEG or PNG images. Disadvantages of Using Animated GIF’s in Email Signatures Much Bigger Email Signature Size

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