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

Hi there,
your plugin ist really great! It kills several problems with one stone for me.
Very nice!
Keep up your good work and thanks very mutch for this plugin.

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Very cool!


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.

Kushang Tailor

<p><strong>VidDefer – Deferred Video Embeds</strong> replaces heavy video embeds with lightweight thumbnail placeholders. The real video only loads when a visitor clicks (or scrolls to) it — saving hundreds of kilobytes per page load.</p>
<h4>Supported Sources</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>YouTube</strong> — replaces iframes with thumbnail + play button</li>
<li><strong>Vimeo</strong> — replaces iframes with thumbnail + play button</li>
<li><strong>Self-hosted videos</strong> — replaces <code><video></code> elements (MP4, WebM, OGV)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Zero configuration — install, activate, done</li>
<li>Click-to-load or scroll-triggered loading</li>
<li>YouTube thumbnail quality control (SD / HQ / Max)</li>
<li>3 play button styles: YouTube-style, Circle, Minimal</li>
<li>Custom play button & overlay colours</li>
<li>GDPR / privacy notice overlay</li>
<li>Exclude specific pages by ID or videos by CSS class</li>
<li>No jQuery — pure ES6, < 2KB gzipped</li>
<li>Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, WPBakery</li>
<li>WCAG 2.1 keyboard-accessible placeholders</li>
<li>Caches Vimeo thumbnails via WordPress transients</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin can connect to external video services to display lazy-loaded video thumbnails and metadata.</p>
<h4>YouTube</h4>
<p>When YouTube lazy loading is enabled, the plugin uses YouTube’s public thumbnail CDN to display thumbnail images for YouTube videos. The visitor’s browser requests the thumbnail image from YouTube when a lazy-loaded YouTube placeholder is displayed. The request includes the YouTube video ID in the thumbnail URL and may include normal browser request data such as the visitor’s IP address and user agent.</p>
<p>This service is provided by YouTube LLC. Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<h4>Vimeo</h4>
<p>When Vimeo lazy loading is enabled, the plugin optimizes page performance by replacing heavy video players with a lightweight placeholder image. To generate this placeholder, your WordPress server makes a secure background request to Vimeo’s public oEmbed API to fetch the video’s thumbnail URL and, optionally, its title. To minimize external requests and maximize site speed, this data is automatically cached locally using WordPress transients, meaning the server only contacts Vimeo when the metadata isn’t already saved.</p>
<p>During this brief server-to-server connection, your site shares minimal, standard data with Vimeo to fulfill the request. This includes the specific Vimeo video URL (which contains the video ID) and a standard User-Agent string identifying your website’s URL alongside the plugin’s name and version. No personal user data is transmitted, making it a seamless and privacy-conscious way to boost your site’s loading times.</p>
<p>This service is provided by Vimeo.com, Inc. Terms of Service: https://vimeo.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy</p>


VidDefer – Deferred Video Embeds

Automatically lazy load YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted videos to dramatically boost page speed and Core Web Vitals.

Lazy Load for Videos vs VidDefer – Deferred Video Embeds