Complianz causing site to load very slowly?

Hi @gfields108,

That’s funny, that your host mentioned four HUGE video assets ??

The video is actually 16 kb, and it’s just one. If you look at your list above you’ll notice that the URL’s are all the same. So in a browser it will also load just once, then it’s cached.

It is a placeholder which is placed into the src of a YouTube or other video iFrame. This is done because there are some video handling scripts that may not trigger the responsive handling of video sizes if there’s no actual video when the page is loaded.

As for the loading issue: the video itself loads fast enough. Do you have issues with loading speed specifically on pages with video’s? If the loading is slow on all pages, it’s not likely that it’s related to this placeholder.

If you can share a URL with a video on it, we can check if it loads as it should.

There are four videos on the homepage itself. That must be why the placeholder is loading four times. Why is the placeholder file taking almost 26 seconds to load when it is just 16.4k? What is the purpose of the placeholder file?

There are two videos on this page:
https://bendablebody.com/get-started/
and again the placeholder file at 16.4k is taking over 26 seconds to load.

Here is the GTMetrix report on this page:

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/bendablebody.com/X7BZRj5M

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by gfields108.

Hi @gfields108,

As for why; if you go to your cookie policy, revoke consent and go to home and click on a video, you will see the placeholder.

I think the main issue is that all videos on the homepage are loaded and buffered even when the user doesn’t interact. To check this you can see a sound icon in the Chrome tab (or other tab) and when loading the first video, the video is playing, but not from the beginning. You can check if autoplay is on, and maybe enable lazy loading of videos.

This will most likely resolve the placeholder holding pattern as well.

regards Aert

Turning off Autoplay on the YouTube videos significantly reduced page load time. Thank you very much!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by gfields108.