Sia taught me about lite youtube embeds
Feb 6, 2025
I have only one YouTube video on this site, but I wanted to make it more performant. Sia Karamalegos taught me how to do that.
Faster YouTube embeds in Eleventy
Video is great, but the default YouTube embed share is both bloated and not privacy-minded. I finally switched my YouTube embeds to lite-youtube-embed by Paul Irish, and it's fantastic. It loads "faster than a sneeze" and uses the no-cookie version by default. -- Sia Karamalegos
And here's that one post that has a video on it.
