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55MB was the (large) GIFs. Maybe HTML5 video would've been better. Disregarding that, 10MB is still pretty large, though.

That "maybe" is a definite "definitely". I would not be surprised it using video would make it 5.5MB.

Not to mention, they could be lazy loaded since they only play when you mouse over them...

Gfycat (http://gfycat.com/) is a fantastic solution to this -- it loads HTML5 video or an animated gif depending on what the client supports.

If only Chrome had a feature of warning you when a website exceeds a certain size - I'm on 500MB of data a month!

SBNation is one of the sites that spends lots of time making their site look really cool, but it definitely makes their websites kind of large.