SIsimonw·Sep 8, 2024
One neat fix for that is to use https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed
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lite-youtube-embed
A faster youtube embed.
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5 sourceslol, yes. good eye. ;) https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed/issues/65
In YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixableDoes the 100K figure include thumbnail?
Edit: I guess yes, the unminified JS file here is 10KB and much of it is code comments https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed/blob/master/...
In YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixableMaybe a good place to mention Paul Irish’s lite-youtube-embed:
"Provide videos with a supercharged focus on visual performance. This custom element renders just like the real thing but approximately 224× faster."
https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed
In YouTube video embedding harm reduction> It would be much more interesting to analyse one of the sites in detail and consider what could be done to reduce the code size, looking at where it's coming from and what it does.
No. No it wouldn't. It's not the job of strangers on the internet to do the job of incompetent developers.
> Or to find out why it might be that some landing pages are shipping a lot of JS (could be because they are landing pages for web apps?)
How does being a landing page for a web app excuse downloading 6-10 MB of javascript to show two pages of static text and images?
> Or consider performance more holistically (are pages shipping a lot of code, but lazy loading or otherwise optimising it so that pages still perform well?).
Here's a holistic overview of performance: The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequali
Read the rest
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> There's a lot of bad faith "this is just a text box" for sites which clearly do much more than that too.
Not clearly. Not clearly at all.
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Edit: note on the incompetence.
If you embed Youtube player in your website, Lighthouse will scream at you for being inefficient and loading too many resources. Nearly all of those issues will come from youtube.
Lighthouse will helpfully provide you with a help page [1] listing wrappers developed by other people to fix this. Chrome's "performance lead" even penned an article[2] on lazy loading iframes and linked to a third-party youtube wrapper which promises 224x speed up over the official embed.
They know. They either are so incompetent that they cannot do the job themselves, or they don't care.
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/thi...
[2] Over at webdev: https://web.dev/articles/iframe-lazy-loading pointing to https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed
BTW. web.dev is created by web devs at Google. Promoting web development best practices. It takes it ~3 seconds to display a list of articles and the client-side only navigation is broken https://web.dev/articles