The author says they don't believe that a lighter version has been shown to reduce engagement.
I, on the other hand, fully believe that.
The recommended lite-youtube-embed project page has a demo of both lite and regular players [0], and the lite version takes noticeably longer to start playing the video.
Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement, and here the difference is more on the order of hundreds of milliseconds or more.
I, on the other hand, fully believe that.
The recommended lite-youtube-embed project page has a demo of both lite and regular players [0], and the lite version takes noticeably longer to start playing the video.
Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement, and here the difference is more on the order of hundreds of milliseconds or more.
[0] https://paulirish.github.io/lite-youtube-embed/