Gif animation does not restart on new page...?

Question

I made a GIF animation running for a few seconds, and is not looped. When I put the gif on different pages, the animation does not restart because its cached... it just stays on the last frame. How can I make it restart when it is on a new page? I know of ways how to rename it or add "?" to it, but it will give me bandwidth issues.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I highly doubt this is possible, without forcing the browser to reload the image (also possible by denying caching), but, as you said, that will result in a higher bandwidth use.