kevinweber

<p>This plugin improves page load time and increases your Google PageSpeed Score. It works with oEmbed and replaces embedded Youtube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image.<br />
By loading videos only when the user clicks on the preview image, no unnecessary JavaScript is loaded. Especially on sites with many embedded videos this will make your visitors happy. Additionally, all Youtube videos are loaded in a privacy-enhanced mode using the “https://www.youtube-nocookie.com” embed URL.</p>
<p>This plugin works for your existing YouTube and Vimeo blocks. No vendor lock-in and no custom shortcodes: Easily turn the plugin on and off anytime.</p>
<p>Plugin review with speed test results <a href="https://wptavern.com/speed-up-wordpress-with-lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on WP Tavern</a>.<br />
Developers can contribute <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on Github</a>.<br />
More about the author: <a href="https://www.kweber.com" rel="nofollow ugc">on kweber.com</a>.</p>
<h4>Some additional features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display video titles on preview images</li>
<li>Display privacy disclaimer on top of preview images (e.g. for GDPR compliance)</li>
<li>Pre-roll and post-roll advertisements: Convert all videos into a playlist and automatically add your corporate video, product teaser or another video advertisement to every video. (Great for branding and video ads!)</li>
<li>Hide annotations such as “subscribe to channel” to avoid distractions</li>
<li>Add custom CSS via the plugin’s admin panel</li>
<li>Choose custom colour for your Vimeo player</li>
<li>Hide controls from Youtube player</li>
<li>Hide information like the video title and uploader when the video starts playing</li>
<li>Even lazy load videos in text widgets (Youtube only)</li>
<li>Choose between thumbnail sizes (standard or cover)</li>
<li>Choose from several play button styles</li>
<li>Choose the traditional red or the alternative white progress bar for the Youtube video player</li>
<li>Don’t show related videos at the end of your videos</li>
<li>Works with WordPress Multisite and many plugins such as TablePress</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set a custom preview image per video</li>
<li>Track how often the videos have been loaded with Google Analytics</li>
<li>… YOU want a new feature RIGHT NOW? Please implement it yourself and <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute on Github</a>, and I’ll publish your enhancements to the official WordPress directory.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS) – <a href="//firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ogi Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – <a href="http://po5i.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Carlos Villavicencio</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can <a href="https://www.kweber.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">send me</a> your gettext PO and MO so that I can bundle it into my plugin. You can download the latest POT file <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lazy-load-for-videos/trunk/languages/lazy-load-for-videos.pot" rel="nofollow ugc">from here</a>.</p>


Lazy Load for Videos

We have pages with multiple videos and that slowed down the page load and increased network traffic. This plugin improved it a lot. Reduced blocking of some pages with seconds and reduced the page load from 3MB to 1,3MB.



Works great


I noticed Squarespace has a much slicker way of loading and showing embedded videos, and I wanted it.   This plugin works perfectly to provide it so that my video portfolio page loads faster and looks better.  Thanks to the developer!


Simple solution for making video pages fast like Squarespace

Boost page speed by replacing embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. Video scripts only load on click.

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<p>This plugin optimizes the loading of images (and videos) with prioritization to improve <a href="https://web.dev/articles/lcp" rel="nofollow ugc">Largest Contentful Paint</a> (LCP), lazy loading, and more accurate image size selection.</p>
<p>The current optimizations include:</p>
<ol>
<li>Add breakpoint-specific <code>fetchpriority=high</code> preload links (both as <code>LINK[rel=preload]</code> elements and <code>Link</code> response headers) for image URLs of LCP elements:
<ol>
<li>An <code>IMG</code> element, including the <code>srcset</code>/<code>sizes</code> attributes supplied as <code>imagesrcset</code>/<code>imagesizes</code> on the <code>LINK</code>.</li>
<li>The first <code>SOURCE</code> element with a <code>type</code> attribute in a <code>PICTURE</code> element. (Art-directed <code>PICTURE</code> elements using media queries are not supported.)</li>
<li>An element with a CSS <code>background-image</code> inline <code>style</code> attribute.</li>
<li>An element with a CSS <code>background-image</code> applied with a stylesheet (when the image is from an allowed origin).</li>
<li>A <code>VIDEO</code> element’s <code>poster</code> image.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Ensure <code>fetchpriority=high</code> is only added to an <code>IMG</code> when it is the LCP element across all responsive breakpoints.</li>
<li>Add <code>fetchpriority=low</code> to <code>IMG</code> tags which appear in the initial viewport but are not visible, such as when they are subsequent carousel slides.</li>
<li>Lazy loading:
<ol>
<li>Apply lazy loading to <code>IMG</code> tags based on whether they appear in any breakpoint’s initial viewport.</li>
<li>Implement lazy loading of CSS background images added via inline <code>style</code> attributes.</li>
<li>Lazy-load <code>VIDEO</code> tags by setting the appropriate attributes based on whether they appear in the initial viewport. If a <code>VIDEO</code> is the LCP element, it gets <code>preload=auto</code>; if it is in an initial viewport, the <code>preload=metadata</code> default is left; if it is not in an initial viewport, it gets <code>preload=none</code>. Lazy-loaded videos also get initial <code>preload</code>, <code>autoplay</code>, and <code>poster</code> attributes restored when the <code>VIDEO</code> is going to enter the viewport.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Responsive image sizes:
<ol>
<li>Ensure <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/18/auto-sizes-for-lazy-loaded-images-in-wordpress-6-7/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>sizes=auto</code></a> is set on <code>IMG</code> tags after setting correct lazy-loading (above).</li>
<li>~~Compute the <code>sizes</code> attribute using the widths of an image collected from URL Metrics for each breakpoint (when not lazy-loaded since then handled by <code>sizes=auto</code>).~~ (This has been removed due to an <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/2098" rel="nofollow ugc">issue</a>; use <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-sizes/" rel="ugc">Enhanced Responsive Images instead</a>.)</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Reduce the size of the <code>poster</code> image of a <code>VIDEO</code> from full size to the size appropriate for the maximum width of the video (on desktop).</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>This plugin requires the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimization-detective/" rel="ugc">Optimization Detective</a> plugin as a dependency.</strong> Please refer to that plugin for additional background on how this plugin works as well as additional developer options.</p>
<p>👉 <strong>Note:</strong> This plugin optimizes pages for actual visitors, and it depends on visitors to optimize pages. As such, you won’t see optimizations applied immediately after activating the plugin. Please wait for URL Metrics to be gathered for both mobile and desktop visits. And since administrator users are not normal visitors typically, optimizations are not applied for admins by default.</p>
<p>Your site must have the <strong>REST API accessible</strong> to unauthenticated frontend visitors since this is how metrics are collected about how a page should be optimized. There are currently <strong>no settings</strong> and no user interface for this plugin since it is designed to work without any configuration.</p>


Image Prioritizer

Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes.

Lazy Load for Videos vs Image Prioritizer