Speeding up video usage

  • Resolved Hans Schuijff

    (@hanswitteprins)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Albert,

    Learning about speeding up page loading, I heard google and others suggest not loading the video player before the user tries to view the video. This would entail showing only an image with a button at first and only loading the player when the button is used.

    I assume you know YouTube loads about 500kb or more when a video is embedded and I understand from the settings that PhastPress solves the TTI by deferring the loading of players until the rest already is loaded. That seems to work, but still loads the player regardless and leaves part of the page empty at first without indication what it is.

    After reading the article on wp speed matters, I found it to be more user friendly to go for the option google suggested of first showing a picture and loading the player after a click.

    How to Speed Up YouTube/Vimeo Embeds in WordPress

    It seems that for YouTube that functionality is part of wp-rocket, but it would be nice to have that option for Vimeo and Facebook video’s too. Is that something you see coming in the future of PhastPress? I could imagine it to become part of Gutenberg embed blocks, or some custom block, but perhaps you have ideas about it?

    I think the ability to first show an image/frame and loading the video player only after user-action would be a great thing to have, when optimizing for speed. Since I mostly embed youtube and some vimeo video’s for now I setup WP-Rocket for that.

    Like to hear your thoughts.

    Thanks,

    Hans

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  • Plugin Author Albert Peschar

    (@kiboit)

    Hi @hanswitteprins,

    It’s certainly an interesting suggestion.

    Up to now, PhastPress does not contain any features that change the way the user interacts with the page, but it’s definitely something I will consider including in future, or building a separate plugin for.

    If and when I do so, I’ll let you know.

    –Albert

    Thread Starter Hans Schuijff

    (@hanswitteprins)

    Hey @kiboit

    Great! When you do, I certainly will try it out. Themes like BuddyBoss seem to already have made this functionality part of it. Pitty that Gutenberg hasn’t made it the default embed method, or an option of the embed block. Probably someone will add this as an option at some point, like lazyload has become the standard since v5.5

    Thanks,

    Hans

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