Embed lighter youtube code

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    SandSaw
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    Hi. I was wondering if we can have this on GD:
    For example, when embedding a You tube video in our listings, are you able to ligthen the YouTube code. There are sites like these:
    https://www.onqmarketing.com.au/youtube-embed-generator/
    https://techbrij.com/tools/youtube-video-embed-code-generator.php

    Are you able to put this in the GD codebase so we can lighten the load on the page with videos and speed up load times. Basically, this is pretty common in some page builders as well, like Elementor.
    So, initially when the page loads it doesnt download all the You Tube code (saving about 600kb data and tons of requests). All you see is an image with a play button. When you press on the You tube video play button,then all the code loads.
    So, for our listings where we have video embeds, can we have this type of lighter You Tube embed which will save us tons of space and speed up our websites.

    Can someone pass this on to the developer as it will really help speed up our sites with videos in listings…Thank you.

    #484648

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
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    Hello,

    When a youtube URL is inserted it is WordPress that converts this to a video not us, therefore you will find many plugins such as this (not tested) that claim to alter WP embed script to do what you want https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

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