crunching animated GIFs

I've got an animated gif on one of my sites thats getting close to 20,000 views a day on myspace ect and it's using 8GB of bandwidth per day and only going up. I need to crunch this file big time. Anyone have suggestions? I'm thinking of removing some frames from it or something?

 

have you tried to make the file smaller by removing a lot of extra information around it? this might be something that will help cut the size down i believe, but im not exactly sure...

where is the animated gif at? would love to get a link there so that we can get traffic like that...

 

It's getting over 30,000 views a day now. It's the first animated gif on my myspace layout site:

http://bombspace.com/album_cat_glit.php?cat_id=16

I was able to remove about 4 frames and i shank to color from 256k to 127k and the file size dropped from 798kb to 512kb.

I'm not sure where all this bandwidth is being used.

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it could be that a lot of people are showing it to other people and its causing the gif to have lots of traffic coming to it...so that might be the case...

what kind of tool is that, want something like that...

 

That is AWstats in my cpanel.

 

damn, i feel like an idiot...i have looked at that and didn't think it was going to give me information like that....

ah, im going to look at it now...

 

hey adam what if you host these images in free image hosting services...like imageshack...It might save your bandwidth

 

If i host them in imageshack I'd have to manually ad watermarks to each one and change hundreds of entries in my database and that something I would not want to do. :scared:

 

wow that is messed up that you have to do that...glad that we try to make sure that we use original images and host them on our sites...lol

 

Thankfully the bandwidth is starting to go down. It went up and down kinda like 3gb, 6gb, 9gb, 12gb, 11gb, 10gb, 8gb, 6gb, 5gb per day. It was only on a temporary page so it didn't stay up long.