Sample GIF 5MB File
Animated GIF — color cycling frames
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Download 5MB GIF5 MBTestFile-gif-5mb.gif
File details
| Format | GIF |
| Extension | .gif |
| MIME type | image/gif |
| Size | 5 MB |
| Exact bytes | 5,242,880 |
| Filename | TestFile-gif-5mb.gif |
| Format version | GIF89a |
| Contents | 800 × 600 px animated GIF; ~150 frames at 80 ms delay; ~12 s loop duration; 256-colour indexed palette |
| Encoding | 8-bit indexed colour; LZW-compressed per-frame image data |
What is a 5MB GIF file useful for?
A 5 MB animated GIF with ~150 frames is representative of a longer looping animation or a short screen recording exported as GIF. Use it to test GIF upload size limits in your platform (many social platforms cap GIF uploads at 5–15 MB), verify that your animated GIF thumbnail generator correctly samples a representative frame rather than always using frame 0, and confirm that your CDN serves this file with appropriate cache headers and without re-encoding it.
What's inside this file?
Generated with Pillow. An 800 × 600 pixel animated GIF with approximately 150 frames at 80 ms delay (~12.5 fps). Total animation duration: approximately 12 seconds. At this frame count the GIF89a file structure contains 150 Image Descriptor + LZW Image Data block pairs. The uncompressed frame data (800 × 600 × 150 frames) is approximately 540 MB — GIF's LZW compression on solid-colour frames achieves a very high ratio, producing the 5 MB target.
Download via curl
curl -L "http://localhost:8000/files/gif/TestFile-gif-5mb.gif" \ -o TestFile-gif-5mb.gif
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