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BEN_GEORGE1
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May 8, 2025
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Gif not working in published figma sites

  • May 8, 2025
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When u add gif in figma site it loads in preview but when you publish its not loading

    Best answer by Celine_

    Hi everyone! I checked with our engineering team, and it turns out this issue can occur when a GIF exceeds the size limit.

    Figma supports GIFs up to 50 megapixels, calculated as: (width × height × number of frames) / 1,000,000 ≤ 50

    If your GIF is over that limit, try reducing its size and uploading again. Hope this helps!

    7 replies

    Braxton Mastre
    Braxton Mastre
    New Member
    May 10, 2025

    I am also having the same issue. The webpage refuses to load them.

      Celine_
      Figmate
      Celine_Answer
      Community Support
      May 20, 2025

      Hi everyone! I checked with our engineering team, and it turns out this issue can occur when a GIF exceeds the size limit.

      Figma supports GIFs up to 50 megapixels, calculated as: (width × height × number of frames) / 1,000,000 ≤ 50

      If your GIF is over that limit, try reducing its size and uploading again. Hope this helps!

      skylarina
      skylarina
      New Member
      May 21, 2025

      we need to bump that number up. a 1280x720 gif (for say our Hero bg) puts us at 921,000 before calculating any frames.

      So either we need to bump that number up or add an autoplay+loop for .mp4 files

        Samuel Shen
        Samuel Shen
        New Member
        August 21, 2025

        This supported size is ridiculously small, this basically makes any gif unusable in Figma Sites (unless it’s like a 2 seconds quick flicker, anything beyond that is bigger than what Figma supports)

        For a product as big as Figma, this is unacceptable. 

          mmueller
          mmueller
          New Member
          January 6, 2026

          Aside from the supported Gif size being ridiculously small and pretty much useless, it would at least be nice to include some better error handling. I ended up publishing my site and had to revert because they load fine in the site preview but show up as broken images in the live site. There is no mention of a file size limit or error message in the UI. This is bad UX!

          Joshua Jung
          Joshua Jung
          New Member
          January 20, 2026

          we need to bump that number up. a 1280x720 gif (for say our Hero bg) puts us at 921,000 before calculating any frames.

          So either we need to bump that number up or add an autoplay+loop for .mp4 files

          Honestly this is a make it or break it kind of functionality… If the site can’t handle low frame gifs, I doubt that it can handle many other things…

            Charlie_B
            Charlie_B
            New Member
            May 9, 2026

            Why would you allow us to design with gifs larger than “50 megapixels” only for them not to work on the published site??! There should at least be an error or warning??? 

            I just wasted a whole day. This is infuriating. 

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