Sourabh Agrawal

Measure Marketing Results Inc.

This plugin gives you the ability to optimize the YouTube videos on your website. By default if you use the direct embeded code in your website, then it downloads the YouTube player on every occurance of YouTube video.
This plugin show a video thumbnail to your viewer and loads the YouTube video only when user click on the play icon.
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
Untill the user click on the play button, the YouTube will not load on the website.
Short code Pattern: 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" image="<image_placeholder_link>" width="640" height="360" thumbnail="maxresdefault"]
</code></pre>
Example 1 – With Embed Link and Custom Banner: 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZfaqLBRP5Yo" image="http://example.com/image.jpg"]
</code></pre>
Example 2 – With a normal YouTube watch link and no banner(Thumbnail generated automatically): 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaqLBRP5Yo"]
</code></pre>
Example 3 – With customized width and height for your Video: 
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaqLBRP5Yo" width="560" height="315"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Parameters</h4>
– video (Required): You can use either YouTube video id or directly add the url.
– image (Optional): Full URL of the thumbnail url. By default it shows the thumbnail of the video.
– width (Optional): Width of the image/video. Default value is 640px.
– height (Optional): Height of the image/video. Default value is 360px.
– thumbnail (Optional): Manage the thumbnail of the video image. you can follow the instruction below to choose the size:
Each YouTube video has generated 4 images. They are predictably formatted as follows:
<pre><code>[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="0" height="360"] 
[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="1" height="360"]
[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="2" height="360"]
[ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="3" height="360"]
</code></pre>
You can also choose different sizes of the images:
<pre><code>Default Size: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="default" height="360"]
SD quality: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="sddefault" height="360"]
HD quality: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="hqdefault" height="360"]
Medium quality: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="mqdefault" height="360"]
Maximum resolution: [ib_youtube video="<video_id>" thumbnail="maxresdefault" height="360"]
</code></pre>
Contributors 
* This plugin was developed by <a href="https://measuremarketing.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Measure Marketing Results Inc.</a>.

WP YouTube Video Optimizer

This is the #1 WordPress plugin that helps you to optimize the YouTube videos on your website by using simple shortcode.

Must Use Plugin for YouTube Videos

The #1 wordpress plugin that helps you optimize the YouTube videos on your site by using simple shortcode(s).

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WP Meteor offers an original way to further optimize your website speed. 
With this plugin you can increase your PageSpeed score by up to 5x. 
The plugin is 100% free, it is compatible and works well with most popular caching plugins like: 
* Autoptimize 
* WP Rocket 
* WP Total Cache 
* WP Super Cache 
* Phastpress 
* LiteSpeed 
* Hummingbird 
* WP Fastest Cache 
* SiteGround Optimizer
It also works well with website builders like Elementor or with image optimizers like ShortPixel.
The few known incompatibilities are listed in the FAQ.
<h4>BENEFITS</h4>
WP Meteor can improve your <a href="https://pagespeed.web.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pagespeed</a> results and the actual loading time of your website by up to 5x! You do not have to take our word for it, it only takes 2 minutes to install the plugin and <a href="https://test.fastpixel.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">test how it improves</a> your website speed. 
And since the plugin is designed to leave no traces on your hard drive or database when deactivated and removed, there is no risk for you.
<h4>HOW IT WORKS</h4>
If the user does not interact with the page immediately, WP Meteor defers loading and firing scripts until the page is rendered, which increases the pagespeed metric, on average, by 2-5x.
This delay in loading scripts greatly improves perceived load times for your visitors. It also significantly improves the following important SEO metrics:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://pagespeed.web.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">Page Speed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/lcp/" rel="nofollow ugc">Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/tti/" rel="nofollow ugc">Time To Interactive (TTI)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/tbt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Total Blocking Time (TBT)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>FURTHER ACCELERATE YOUR WEBSITE</h3>
If you want to optimize your website’s speed to the fullest extent automatically while ensuring that all Core Web Vitals are taken care of, we recommend trying <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fastpixel-website-accelerator/" rel="ugc">FastPixel.io</a> for free. 
The FastPixel project is a collaboration between the creator of WP Meteor and ShortPixel, and it addresses, with just a few clicks, <a href="https://fastpixel.io/blog/easy-way-to-improve-core-web-vitals-on-wordpress/?utm_source=wpmeteor-readme#common-issues-affecting-core-web-vitals" rel="nofollow ugc">all the common issues</a> that affect Core Web Vitals.

WP Meteor Website Speed Optimization Addon

Let me cut to the chase. WP Meteror is an awesome plugin that actually worked for me and rocketed my score up according to Google Page Speed metrics.
Furthermore, It is fully compatible with Autoptimize and WP Super Cache, two great plugins which I persistently consider among “must-haves.” 
Being always frustrated with GPS scores, I was always looking for a way to minimize the damn “main thread work,” get rid of “render-blocking resources” and improve LCP, TTI and TBT (Ironically, Google still regards its own reCAPTCHA, Tag Manager, etc. as render-blocking or unused JavaScript!)
The optimization of JS files and applying Defer attribute to scripts, among many others, just led to a slight improvement in my score, no way comparable with that of WP Meteor.
Last but not least, using WP Meteor had some downsides on my website as Alex had clearly explained. But there is an inbuilt exclusion session which helped me exclude troublesome scripts easily.
In a nutshell, this plugin kills it on Page Speed and deserves 10 out of 5 stars!


 



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