Video: Two Roads, Two Speeds
Two video approaches on one page. The left one is served from our own CDN with a plain <video> tag; until you press play, only a small poster loads. The right one is a "lite shell" for the classic YouTube embed: not a single byte comes from YouTube until you click.
From our own server
- Before play: ~15 KB (poster only)
- No third-party cookies, no tracking
- Plays even offline via the service worker cache
Lite-shell embed
- Classic embed: ~1.3 MB of scripts + iframe before play
- Lite shell: 0 third-party bytes until click
- Plays via youtube-nocookie.com after click
Recommendation: serving video from our own CDN protects both speed and privacy; YouTube should only be added when unavoidable, and then via a lite shell like this one.