clebermind

When we embed youtube videos on a page it calls for some URLs and it’s hard to get off to improve the score on page speed. 
This plugin put an image thumb of the video with a play button instead of the youtube video. Simple and fast, just put a shortcode and it is working! 
A CSS+JS solution using a Youtube automatic thumb or your hosted preferred thumb! 
This plugin is based on https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimise-youtube-video-embed/

Optimize YouTube Video Embed

Embed Youtube Video using the shortcode [youtube_iframe]. It shows a youtube thumb of the video(or custom thumb set) and loads the youtube video just  …

Claudio Cirino Junior

It is a WordPress Gutenberg plugin that creates static content for your embedded video
=Benefits=
<ul>
<li>Reduction of unnecessary requests</li>
<li>Increased Score on Google Core Web Vitals</li>
</ul>
=What embedded content does this plugin support?=
YouTube 
Vimeo 
Spotify
=How it works?=
It’s very easy, when adding the url to the block the plugin creates a static version of the embedded content based on the data returned by the url

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