How to Achieve the Best for Your Website Videos

If you must have videos on your page, then you will have to choose from any of the available options.

• Host the Videos Yourself
• Adopt the Use of Streaming Video Players
• Optimize YouTube Embedded Videos

Though each of these options offers some benefits, the focus is to prevent your page from slowing down.

1 - Host the Videos Yourself

This is a great choice if you want total control of how videos appear on your website. You are at liberty to customize every feature of your videos to sync with that of your website.

And you can decide on whether to host directly on your web server or use a CDN (Content Delivery Network).

This option is a more expensive approach as you will be paying the extra costs for the server. Also, everything about video optimization will be handled by you and if you don't have the requisite skills, you may run into trouble, or better still seek the services of a professional that would also incur an extra cost.

Quite frankly, this option may not guarantee a great user experience for all visitors to your site.

2 - Adopt the Use of Streaming Video Players

Most streaming video players used today are embedded on your website through JavaScript. And this allows all elements of your web pages to fully load before your videos are loaded.

The JavaScript snippet is an extra piece of code that adds to the weight of your source code. And the fact that all page elements are required to load before the video takes some extra time also.

So you see that this option is going to take you much longer time for your pages and videos to load.