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There's also an animated GIF (Turn_it_to_11.gif) that weighs 6.7MB and is not even visible until you click "Show related articles" at the bottom. And even if you do that, it's only displayed in 164x82px instead of the original 2880x1200px.

Looks like Google's CDN works so well that creating resized versions to save bandwidth is not worth it. :)

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Sounds like their automatic compression functionality on their CDN isn't exactly working the way its supposed to. I know AWS Cloudflare has something like this that I use in conjunction with saving website images on S3.

> Looks like Google's CDN works so well that creating resized versions to save bandwidth is not worth it. :)

Worth it to them, maybe; what about the poor reader?

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