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.

WP Media

WP Rocket

<p>LazyLoad is the best free lazy load plugin for WordPress to lazy load images, videos, and iframes on WordPress. In a nutshell, LazyLoad displays images, videos, and iframes on a page only when they are visible to the user – that’s one crucial way to <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/blog/guide-to-page-speed-optimization-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">speed up your WordPress site</a> and <a href="https://imagify.io/blog/optimize-images-page-speed-google/#lazy-loading" rel="nofollow ugc">optimize images for Google PageSpeed</a>.</p>
<p>You can lazy load images in post content or widget text, plus thumbnails, avatars, and smilies. LazyLoad takes care of iframe lazy load, too: you’ll easily replace Youtube iframes with a preview thumbnail to further speed up the loading time of your website.</p>
<p>No JavaScript library such as jQuery is used, and the script weight is less than 10KB.</p>
<h4>Why is lazy loading crucial for performance?</h4>
<p>Lazy loading is a key performance technique to make your site faster. You’ll reduce loading time, <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/lighthouse-performance-score-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">improve your Lighthouse performance score</a> and <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/google-core-web-vitals-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">optimize your Core Web Vitals grades</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://wp-rocket.me/blog/lazy-loading-wordpress-5-5/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lazy loading your images on WordPress</a> will help you achieve a better PageSpeed Insights score for three main reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>You’ll address a specific PageSpeed Insights recommendation: [Defer offscreen images](https://wp-rocket.me/google-core-web-vitals-wordpress/defer-offscreen-images/, which means image lazy loading.</li>
<li>You’ll improve the performance of two key metrics: <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/google-core-web-vitals-wordpress/improve-first-input-delay/" rel="nofollow ugc">First Input Delay</a> (Core Web Vital) and <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/lighthouse-performance-score-wordpress/reduce-total-blocking-time/" rel="nofollow ugc">Total Blocking Time</a> (Lighthouse metric).</li>
<li>You’ll <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/blog/reduce-http-requests-speed-wordpress-site/" rel="nofollow ugc">make fewer HTTP requests</a> – that is another way to boost your site speed and <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/google-core-web-vitals-wordpress/improve-largest-contentful-paint/" rel="nofollow ugc">improve the Largest Contentful Paint score</a> (another Core Web Vital).</li>
</ul>
<p>Take a look at our complete list of reasons <a href="https://wp-rocket.me/blog/lazyloading/#section-2" rel="nofollow ugc">why you should use lazy loading</a>. Then, turn on LazyLoad and make your WordPress website faster!</p>
<h4>Dependencies</h4>
<p>LazyLoad script: <a href="https://github.com/verlok/lazyload" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/verlok/lazyload</a></p>


LazyLoad Plugin – Lazy Load Images, Videos, and Iframes

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The best free lazy load plugin for WordPress. Lazy load images, videos, and iframes to improve performance and Core Web Vitals scores.

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