Simple by design, and it plays well with others

While working on a plugin to make YouTube embeds sticky, I hit a performance wall: the more videos on a page, the heavier it got. So I tried Lazy Load for Videos, and it turned the standard block-editor embeds into lazy-loaded ones with zero extra setup. The page got dramatically lighter.

What I appreciated most is that videos aren’t materialized on scroll, but on click. It’s common for a page to have 10 embedded videos where visitors actually play only 2 or 3. Scroll-based lazy loading still ends up loading everything eventually, but with click-based loading, only the videos people actually want get loaded. That difference is noticeable.

Pairing this with my sticky plugin turned out to be the missing piece. Articles featuring multiple video guides now feel clean and lightweight, carrying no extra weight until a reader actually hits play. Understated, well thought-out, and hard to find a substitute for.