Activate this plugin and reduce you page weight by nearly 1mo ! Because embed videos can dramatically increase your page weight and loading time, Embed Video Thumbnail automatically replace them by their corresponding thumbnail. Videos will then only be loaded after click on thumbnails. This plugin fixes part of the following “defer parsing of javascript” error in GTmetrix : xxxx MiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering. Currently supported video hosting services : Youtube Vimeo Dailymotion Facebook Optional settings : Toggle activation on each hosting services Toggle activation by device (desktop, tablet, mobile) Copy thumbnail on local server for performance improvements Display video title over the thumbnail Toggle video loop on Vimeo and Youtube Import/export settings Widget : You can use our Embed Video Thumbnail widget to transform your videos in sidebars. Custom hosting services can be added with the ikevt_extension_providers hook. Each hosting service extension must implement IkanaEmbedVideoThumbnailProviderProviderInterface Requirements : php 5.6+
