lite-youtube-embed vs lite-youtube

lite-youtube-embed

A faster youtube embed. (by paulirish)

paulirish.github.io

lite-youtube

The fastest little YouTube web component on this side of the internet. The shadow dom web component version of Paul's lite-youtube-embed. (by justinribeiro)

web-component vanilla-webcomponent Youtube

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lite-youtube-embed		lite-youtube
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9	Mentions	2
5,383	Stars	806
-	Growth	-
6.3	Activity	3.3
23 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
HTML	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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lite-youtube-embed

Posts with mentions or reviews of lite-youtube-embed. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-28.

YouTube video embedding harm reduction
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024

Maybe 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
Question about the youtube Iframes and removing the obnoxious youtube logo
1 project | /r/webdev | 10 Jan 2023
How to embed YouTube and Vimeo the light way
2 projects | dev.to | 25 Jun 2022
The Google home page is 500K
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2021

That's always been the case. Having too many Google Ads can even downrank you in search results for being a bad user experience.
For Youtube embeds, I prefer Lite Youtube Embed[1] by the magnificent Paul Irish.
[1] https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed
My web performance journey with Nuxt, Storyblok & Netlify
8 projects | dev.to | 17 Apr 2021

What I use → For Youtube videos I started using lite-youtube-embed package, following the advice of Debbie O'brien and web.dev!
Faster YouTube embeds in Eleventy
1 project | dev.to | 7 Apr 2021

Video is great, but the default YouTube embed share is both bloated and not privacy-minded. I finally switched my YouTube embeds to lite-youtube-embed by Paul Irish, and it's fantastic. It loads "faster than a sneeze" and uses the no-cookie version by default.
Lite-YouTube Embed
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Mar 2021
Shouldn't YouTube Videos Hurt Rankings because of the resulting bad page speed?
1 project | /r/TechSEO | 15 Mar 2021
Lazy loading with React
3 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2020

The Lite Youtube Embed project by Paul Irish is a perfect example of fake loading: it takes a Youtube Video ID and presents only a thumbnail with a play button :

lite-youtube

Posts with mentions or reviews of lite-youtube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-25.

Does an embedded video loaded paused still cost bandwidth?
1 project | /r/webdev | 21 Nov 2022
How to embed YouTube and Vimeo the light way
2 projects | dev.to | 25 Jun 2022

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