
This is a jQuery plugin to lazy load Youtube videos. On the initial load, the div
will be replaced by a preview img
of the video. On hover, the preview img
will be replaced by the iframe
Youtube video.
Youtube video embeds were causing an obnoxious lag on every page load. In order to speed things up, we wrote a jQuery plugin called lazyYT.js. While we have done similar custom setups for sites we have built before, we wanted to put together something simple, easy-to-use, and available for anyone.
To speed up the page load LazyYT works by initially loading a preview image, then waiting until the video is actually clicked to load and start the full Youtube video.
Tags: YouTube