Lightweight and Responsive Youtube Embed vs Vimeography

If you are embedding Youtube video(s) into your site then you will need this plugin. As you may (or may not) know the default Youtube embed code is not responsive and in order to load the player itself your browser has to download more than 1MB of data from Youtube’s servers. That is way too much and this is the reason why we made this plugin. A video player has to be lightweight and responsive. Period. This plugin is replacing the default Youtube player with the video’s high quality thumbnail and a play button. The real player and the video won’t load until you click on the play button or the thumbnail itself. With this easy trick you will have a much lighter and faster website and the thumbnail + the actual player will be responsive too. Our plugin is only 60KB without any extra library or unnecessary function. If you are speed-optimizing your site or if you want to reduce the loading times of your pages then you are at the right place. This plugin will: Make all of the embedded Youtube videos responsive automatically Will reduce the size of your pages (where you have embedded videos) Will make your site faster Will improve the user experience You can also: Manually insert a different thumbnail for each embedded video with the ‘thumb_url’ parameter. [youtube_embed url=”video_url” thumb-url=”custom_thumb_url”] Manually set a different width for each video with the ‘width’ parameter. [youtube_embed url=”video_url” width=”50″] Manually align each video to left, right or center with the ‘align’ parameter. [youtube_embed url=”video_url” align=”center”] Disable the related videos Disable the video controls Disable the fullscreen option Align the videos globally or individually Set the custom video width for all videos or to just a single video with a shortcode parameter Comparison Here’s a quick comparison with the built-in TwentySeventeen theme (without any other plugin). We placed a default Youtube video embed code in a new and empty page, ran the tests and then replaced it with our solution before running the tests again. Total page size with the traditional Youtube embed code: 2.18MB Total page size with our lightweight & responsive embedder: 472KB Page load time with the traditional Youtube embed code: 5.33s Page load time with our lightweight & responsive embedder: 2.52s

100+ 5-star Reviews! Vimeography is the Best and Most Powerful Video Gallery Plugin for Membership and Course Sites. ★★★★★ More than 10,000 websites use Vimeography to show their Vimeo videos on their own WordPress website. Vimeography is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to create your own Netflix style website with beautiful, custom Vimeo video galleries in 30 seconds, tops! Our video gallery plugin is used to power over 10,000 video membership, course, and portfolio websites. For more information, check out vimeography.com Some amazing features: Automatically add videos uploaded to a Vimeo user account, channel, or showcase to your video gallery Easily insert video galleries on a page, post or template with one click Set a featured video to appear as the first video in your Vimeo video gallery Change your Vimeo video gallery’s appearance with custom themes Tweak your video gallery theme’s look with the appearance editor Control the video gallery width using pixels or percentages Built-in caching for quick page loads Vimeography Themes Make your gallery stand out with our custom video gallery themes! All themes come with one year of updates and support. Check our all of our video gallery designs at https://vimeography.com/themes Want more features? Check out Vimeography Pro for additional features: Create searchable galleries Create shareable links to videos in your collection Show unlimited videos Enable download links for your videos Show hidden videos, create auto-playing playlists, custom sorting and more! Supports Vimeo video interaction tools (end screens, cards, email capture)