Haha yeah I get that. I probably get the most savings from the animation compressor which checks if GIFs are over a certain threshold (> 1mb) and then seamlessly converts to autoplaying muted MP4 files which function nearly identically.

I really wanted to use animated WebP but the iOS decoding is SUPER unreliable often resulting in choppy inconsistent framerates.

One thing I don't do but I know is more common is using <Picture> elements to serve scaled assets depending on if the user is coming from mobile vs desktop.

Depending on what you use for your blog, you might look and see if the SSG has plugins for media optimization. By the time I figured that out, I had already handrolled my own. :p