This particular client has a few hundred thousand images and tens of thousands of animated gifs. It's the animated gifs that take forever because they have to

This particular client has a few hundred thousand images and tens of thousands of animated gifs. It's the animated gifs that take forever because they have to be processed with gifsicle and then converted to mpeg-4. Imgix does all of that. I don't know what kind of voodoo they are doing on the gif crop, but it's lightning fast.