mrwweb

cbirdsong

<p>If you care about performance, privacy, and user experience, this block is for you.</p>
<p>This plugin enhances the default YouTube and Vimeo blocks—including any existing blocks—and changes their behavior to only load the video thumbnail until a visitor chooses to play the video.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Load YouTube videos faster (uses the <code>lite-youtube</code> custom-element)</li>
<li>Load Vimeo videos faster (uses the <code>lite-viemo</code> custom-element)</li>
<li>Loads YouTube videos from nocookie.youtube.com for enhanced privacy</li>
<li>Works without JavaScript (shows link to video instead in a player-like design)</li>
<li>No plugin lock-in! Automatically improves the core Embed block. Turn the plugin off and the behavior goes back to the WordPress default.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Want more features?</h4>
<p>I’m considering building a PRO version with the potential following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Options to set a custom start and end time</li>
<li>Custom thumbnail images for videos</li>
<li>Custom aspect ratios for videos</li>
<li>Support for YouTube shorts</li>
<li>Control whether to load video from nocookie.youtube.com or not</li>
<li>Adjust the image quality of the thumbnail</li>
<li>Support for playlists, not just single videos</li>
<li>Full support for all YouTube query parameters (https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters)</li>
<li>Classic Editor / [embed] shortcode support</li>
</ul>
<p>If enough people express interest, I’ll build it! <a href="https://mrwweb.com/wordpress-plugins/enhanced-embed-block/#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Let me know if you’re interested!</a></p>
<h4>Contribute on Github</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/mrwweb/enhanced-embed-block" rel="nofollow ugc">Enhanced Embed Block is on Github</a> for pull requests and bug reports.</p>
<h3>Software</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the <a href="https://github.com/justinribeiro/lite-youtube" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>lite-youtube</code> custom-element</a> under the MIT license. Thank you to Paul Irish and Justin Ribiero for their work on that project.</p>
<p>This plugin uses the <a href="https://github.com/cshawaus/lite-vimeo" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>lite-vimeo</code> custom-element</a> under the MIT license. Thank you to Chris Shaw for their work on that project.</p>


Enhanced Embed Block for YouTube & Vimeo

Enhance the default YouTube and Vimeo Embed blocks to load faster.

beleaf

Josh

<p>Videos are one of the largest assets that can be loaded on a webpage, and as such are one of the largest contributors to slow performance and high carbon emissions.</p>
<p>In fact, adding a Youtube embed to a page using the latest default WordPress theme, increased the page transfer size from 21 kb to 973 kb, and loaded an additional 27 resources. That’s an increase in transfer size of 4533%. Adding a Vimeo video increased the transfer from 21 kb to 276 kb, an increase in transfer size of 1214%, and loaded an additional 7 resources.</p>
<p>The Lazy Embed plugin defers the loading of any resource required for playing the video until the video is requested to be played. It does this by adding a srcdoc attribute to the iframe which shows in place of the normal iframe content.</p>
<p>Currently the following third parties are supported</p>
<ul>
<li>Youtube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
</ul>


Lazy Embed

Improves the performance and reduces the emissions of your website by only loading embeds (youtube, vimeo, etc) when they are clicked.

Enhanced Embed Block for YouTube & Vimeo vs Lazy Embed