🍊 Introducing Lite Video: Keep Your Pages Fast While Showcasing Video

September 20, 2025 • Written by Alex Zappa

Video is powerful. It sells, it explains, it connects.
But embedding YouTube or Vimeo directly? That often means sluggish load times, bloated iFrames, and a sad Lighthouse score.

That’s why we built Lite Video — a fresh new module designed to make video embeds lightweight and performance-friendly.

⚡ What is Lite Video?

Lite Video is a smart embed solution that:

• Loads only a preview thumbnail until the user clicks play.
• Avoids heavy iFrames that normally load hundreds of KB upfront.
• Keeps your page blazing fast while still delivering the same video experience.

🎯 Why it matters

• SEO & Core Web Vitals → Faster load, happier Google.
• User Experience → Pages render instantly, videos play seamlessly on click.
• Marketing Teams → Add videos to landing pages without fearing conversion drops.

🛠 How it works

1. Drop the Lite Video module on your page.
2. Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link.
3. Publish — and done.

Your visitors see a clean thumbnail with a play button. When they click, the video player loads just in time.

🎬 See it in action

We’ve set up a simple demo page so you can see Lite Video in action:

👉 Live Demo of Lite Video

It shows how the module works in a real environment — lightweight by default, fully interactive when needed.

🔍 Technical SEO boost

Lite Video isn’t just about looks — it directly improves Core Web Vitals:

• LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) → faster, because your hero video isn’t blocking render.
• CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) → stable, no jumping elements when the iFrame loads.
• TBT (Total Blocking Time) → reduced, thanks to less JavaScript execution upfront.

That means:

• Better Google PageSpeed Insights scores.
• Higher Lighthouse performance.
• A direct positive signal for SEO rankings.

🧩 SEO Schema Built In

Lite Video doesn’t just make your embeds lighter — it also helps your videos get discovered.
If you’re curious why structured data matters so much for SEO, check out our guide: \ 👉 Why Schema Markup Is Important

Every embed automatically includes a proper VideoObject JSON-LD schema, so search engines can:

• Understand what your video is about.
• Display rich snippets with thumbnails in search results.
• Improve discoverability and click-through rates.

You don’t need to write JSON-LD by hand — Lite Video handles it for you, on the fly.

Here’s what it looks like behind the scenes (generated automatically for your video):

<script type="application/ld+json">
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "VideoObject",
        "name": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)",
        "description": "“Never Gonna Give You Up” was a global smash on its release in July 1987.",
        "thumbnailUrl": ["https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/maxresdefault.jpg"],
        "uploadDate": "1987-07-27T00:00:00+00:00",
        "inLanguage": "en",
        "embedUrl": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ",
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "WatchAction",
            "target": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ"
        }
    }
</script>

📈 Our Tests

• Standard YouTube embed → ~700KB resources loaded instantly.
• Lite Video → ~6KB until user interaction.
• Performance boost → +20–25 Lighthouse points.

🚀 Try it today

Get the module here: Install Lite Video
Let your videos be fresh, juicy, and lightning-fast.