Valerii Bohdanov

iDeus

The plugin reduces page load time and increases your Google PageSpeed score.
It replaces the embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos with a video preview image, third-party CSS & JS are downloaded only after a click.

Simple Lazy Load Videos


The plugin does exactly what it says. And thanks, Valery, for adding Gutenberg support.


Thanks for the plugin!

Simple Lazy Load for embedded video from YouTube and Vimeo

ikanaweb

Activate this plugin and reduce you page weight by nearly 1mo !
Because embed videos can dramatically increase your page weight and loading time, Embed Video Thumbnail 
automatically replace them by their corresponding thumbnail. Videos will then only be loaded after click on thumbnails.
This plugin fixes part of the following “defer parsing of javascript” error in GTmetrix :
<blockquote>
xxxx MiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering.
</blockquote>
Currently supported video hosting services :
<ul>
<li>Youtube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
</ul>
Optional settings :
<ul>
<li>Toggle activation on each hosting services</li>
<li>Toggle activation by device (desktop, tablet, mobile)</li>
<li>Copy thumbnail on local server for performance improvements</li>
<li>Display video title over the thumbnail</li>
<li>Toggle video loop on Vimeo and Youtube</li>
<li>Import/export settings</li>
</ul>
Widget :
You can use our Embed Video Thumbnail widget to transform your videos in sidebars.
Custom hosting services can be added with the <code>ikevt_extension_providers</code> hook. 
Each hosting service extension must implement <code>Ikana\EmbedVideoThumbnail\Provider\ProviderInterface</code>
Requirements :
<ul>
<li>php 5.6+</li>
</ul>

Embed Video Thumbnail

Automatically replace embed videos everywhere with their thumbnail to reduce page load time and improve your GTmetrix score.

Simple Lazy Load Videos vs Embed Video Thumbnail