I've been making gifs for my sites for years and realize the power behind that type of content. (Viral marketing via Reddit etc)
The only issue is the amount of bandwidth they take up while hosting them on whatever server the website is setup on.
Would hosting gifs on sites like IMGUR and placing IMG links within my page rather than uploading the gif to my CMS effect user bandwidth? Would it effect other areas of SEO since the image would be a link to another hosting site rather than original content uploaded straight into the CMS?
A quick example. My site
SmokingChaos.com currently has one image that I've been monitoring in AWstats and noticing the large amounts of server bandwidth being used. I would hate for mobile users to browse my site and run into data usage and load time issues.
Probably an amateur question but it's a hump I'm trying to get over in my developing process. Help me out.