Have you ever embedded a YouTube or Vimeo video on your website?
If you have, take a moment and check how it has affected the speed and performance of your webpage.
- Go to Pingdom.
- Paste the URL where you have embedded the YouTube video.
- You’ll notice that the YouTube Video alone consumes about half MB of extra JavaScript files. ?
The strange part is that these files are downloaded even if the user does not play the embedded video. This affects the page load time for no constructive reason at all!
So today, we are introducing an innovative Video widget for Elementor that will allow you to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos without sacrificing the performance ?
Just to show you how effective this widget is, below is the screenshot of the speed test results of the same page that is tested above, but – after embedding the video with our new widget ?
Please take a moment to watch a walkthrough video which explains how exactly this widget works.
We have updated our Modal Popup widget as well with the same technique. So if you have embedded videos in the modal popup or plan to, rest assured, we have taken care that the videos won’t affect the performance of your website.
Please update to the latest version 1.4.0 and try replacing your existing video embeds with this new widget. Don’t forget to let us know the difference you will see in the speed of your website in the comments below!
Cheers!
