diff --git a/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/core/animations/barDelayAnimation.ts b/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/core/animations/barDelayAnimation.ts
index 3e2e164dd..9370d66d9 100644
--- a/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/core/animations/barDelayAnimation.ts
+++ b/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/core/animations/barDelayAnimation.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import { AnimationOptions, AnimationSpec } from 'chart.js';
 
-export const barDelayAnimation = (props?: { dataDelay?: number; datasetDelay?: number }) => {
-  const { dataDelay = 200, datasetDelay = 100 } = props || {};
+const MAX_DELAY = 1200;
+
+export const barDelayAnimation = (props?: { maxDelay?: number }) => {
+  const { maxDelay = MAX_DELAY } = props || {};
   let delayed = false;
   return {
     onComplete: () => {
@@ -9,13 +11,20 @@ export const barDelayAnimation = (props?: { dataDelay?: number; datasetDelay?: n
     },
     delay: (context) => {
       let delay = 0;
+      const dataIndex = context.dataIndex;
+      const datasetIndex = context.datasetIndex;
       const numberOfDatasets = context.chart.data.datasets.length;
-      const numberOfDataPoints = context.chart.data.datasets[context.datasetIndex].data.length;
+      const numberOfDataPoints = context.chart.data.datasets[datasetIndex]?.data.length || 1;
 
       if (context.type === 'data' && context.mode === 'default' && !delayed) {
-        delay = context.dataIndex * dataDelay + context.datasetIndex * datasetDelay;
-        // Ensure the maximum delay is 1000ms
-        delay = Math.min(delay, 1000);
+        // Calculate a scaling factor to distribute delays evenly, with max total delay of 1500ms
+
+        const totalSegments = numberOfDatasets * numberOfDataPoints - 1; // -1 because first element has 0 delay
+        const scalingFactor = totalSegments > 0 ? maxDelay / totalSegments : 0;
+
+        // Calculate position in overall sequence (dataset index * points per dataset + datapoint index)
+        const sequencePosition = datasetIndex * numberOfDataPoints + dataIndex;
+        delay = sequencePosition * scalingFactor;
       }
       return delay;
     }
diff --git a/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/hooks/useOptions/useOptions.tsx b/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/hooks/useOptions/useOptions.tsx
index 53b1b04b8..474fb7a06 100644
--- a/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/hooks/useOptions/useOptions.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/hooks/useOptions/useOptions.tsx
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import {
   LINE_DECIMATION_THRESHOLD,
   TOOLTIP_THRESHOLD
 } from '../../../config';
-import { barDelayAnimation } from '../../core/animations/barDelayAnimation';
 import { useAnimations } from './useAnimations';
 
 interface UseOptionsProps {
@@ -202,7 +201,6 @@ export const useOptions = ({
 
     return {
       indexAxis: isHorizontalBar ? 'y' : 'x',
-      animation,
       backgroundColor: colors,
       borderColor: colors,
       scales,
@@ -220,10 +218,11 @@ export const useOptions = ({
           samples: LINE_DECIMATION_SAMPLES
         }
       },
+      animation,
       ...chartOptions
     } satisfies ChartProps<ChartJSChartType>['options'];
   }, [
-    animate,
+    animation,
     colors,
     scales,
     interaction,
@@ -235,8 +234,7 @@ export const useOptions = ({
     isHorizontalBar,
     goalLinesAnnotations,
     trendlineAnnotations,
-    tooltipOptions,
-    animate
+    tooltipOptions
   ]);
 
   return options;
diff --git a/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/inspiration.txt b/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/inspiration.txt
index e1ac59e08..dfb9cb4a1 100644
--- a/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/inspiration.txt
+++ b/web/src/components/ui/charts/BusterChartJS/inspiration.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-https://andrew-dev-p.github.io/chartjs-showcase/drill-down-bar.html
\ No newline at end of file
+https://andrew-dev-p.github.io/chartjs-showcase/drill-down-bar.html
+https://github.com/Pecacheu/chartjs-filter-plugin
\ No newline at end of file