diff --git a/client/utils/constants.ts b/client/utils/constants.ts
index efaf6d9..07db435 100644
--- a/client/utils/constants.ts
+++ b/client/utils/constants.ts
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
 export const LIKES_INCREMENT_STEP = 8; // # of increment when displayed likes is less than finalLikes
 export const LIKES_INCREMENT_DELAY = 15; // displayed likes increases by LIKES_INCREMENT_STEP every LIKES_INCREMENT_DELAY millisecs
+export const LIKES_ANIMATION_DELAY = 4000; // delay in millisec the likes animation to wait for comments to start rolling
+export const ANIMATION_DURATION_LOWER = 1000; // lower limit for animation runtime
+export const ANIMATION_DURATION_UPPER = 2000; // upper limit for animation runtime
+export const PAUSE_DURATION_LOWER = 2000; // lower limit for pause duration
+export const PAUSE_DURATION_UPPER = 3000; // upper limit for pause duration