That's true, it doesn't work on mobile and it's not ideal but I still think it's better than having your users download half a megabyte of junk. I've been thinking about it although I haven't found a good alternative just yet. In any case I should point this out in the post. Thank you for your comment!
YouTube has an JavaScript-based embed API. In HTML, you can defer external JavaScript until the page has finished parsing. This way, the video player will only load after other parts of the page have been loaded first. While this won't decrease the amount of data that will get downloaded or prevent tracking by Google, it will allow people with a poor internet connection to comfortably view the page whilst the video player is taking its time to load in the background.
If you don't like using this method, you could still make videos automatically play on browsers which, on the surface, don't seem to support autoplay. Some browsers have started blocking autoplay because it allows web pages to play sound without the user's permission which can be unwanted. However, in many instances, browsers that do this will still allow autoplay when the video has been muted.
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That's true, it doesn't work on mobile and it's not ideal but I still think it's better than having your users download half a megabyte of junk. I've been thinking about it although I haven't found a good alternative just yet. In any case I should point this out in the post. Thank you for your comment!
YouTube has an JavaScript-based embed API. In HTML, you can defer external JavaScript until the page has finished parsing. This way, the video player will only load after other parts of the page have been loaded first. While this won't decrease the amount of data that will get downloaded or prevent tracking by Google, it will allow people with a poor internet connection to comfortably view the page whilst the video player is taking its time to load in the background.
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If you don't like using this method, you could still make videos automatically play on browsers which, on the surface, don't seem to support
autoplay. Some browsers have started blockingautoplaybecause it allows web pages to play sound without the user's permission which can be unwanted. However, in many instances, browsers that do this will still allowautoplaywhen the video has been muted.