Data Gif Maker by Google News Lab

I always fail to understand how an organisation like Google, who value mobile so much, can keep churning out web pages that can't display properly on the smaller screen.

I'm either missing the point of those gifs, or they do look kind of pointless.

As a test, I compared: 1,2,3,4,5 with 5,4,3,2,1. Expected a smooth movement from left to right. Got a visualization that jumps all around the screen.

What information is this supposed to convey? What's the role of the animation? Wouldn't it be better shown with a bunch of stacked horizontal bars on top of each other? E.g. my example:

  x=====
  xx====
  xxx===
  xxxx==
  xxxxx=

The Material Design approach to the wacky animations I used in my first powerpoint presentation.

any examples?

This is very... underwhelming.

This really made by Google?