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  • First off, thanks! just left your first 5-Star Review!
    I see in dev tools:
    No media showing on my test post
    SF jpegs being served through Static File Front End Server!

    Not entirely sure if it is possible but if it is….
    My greatest wish is that SlimFast can have SFFE set as: x-xss-protection: 1

    Great Plugin! Best wishes! I foresee 1M active installs!

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  • Thread Starter shirtguy72

    (@shirtguy72)

    As info: I have a fairly large news media site and have somewhere close to 1000 YT embeds spread through many post. I currently have SlimFast and one of the other type plugins still active so I can change these post to Slim at my convenience…In doing so, I came across many instances where SlimFast could not pickup the placeholder image from Youtube…Here is one such url hopefully you can test as to why the image won’t apply.

    https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=K5TuXDPdzL8

    Thanks for looking into this for me.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by shirtguy72.
    Plugin Author ThinkSmall

    (@thinksmall1)

    Hi shirtguy!

    Regarding the bug with some of the video placeholders, I’ve been able to identify and fix the issue. I just released SlimFast 1.0.1 for that purpose. Can you upgrade and let me know?

    The thumbnail was served by YouTube’s ssdefault format. Unlike what its name let us think, this format doesn’t exist for all videos. We’re now using the hqformat, which is much more reliable. This format is a smaller (480px vs 640 px width), which makes images even lighter. I’ve reduced the default video size to 560px to avoid bluriness.

    A big thank you for flagging this issue went under the radar of v1.0.

    Now about your greatest wish… I had considered pros and cons about offering to create local copies of thumbnails instead of serving them directly from YouTube. I’ve seen it on the Lazy Load for Videos plugin. If thumbnails are on your server, you are basically free to cache them as you wish. I did some tests to evaluate the added value and balance it with the extra code it would require and decided not to go that path, at least for now!

    Happy to get other suggestions in this box. I might not be able to satisfy them all, but the feedback is always useful to move forward.

    ps: what’s your website?

    Thread Starter shirtguy72

    (@shirtguy72)

    Thanks and you’re most welcome!
    Have tons on my plate at the moment but I’ll let you know how 1.0.1 fares for me.

    Agreed, caching thumbs sounds great on paper but in testing the options out there so far, I found my site “peppier” on mobile with the plugin(s) or functionality disabled and/or going straight embed.

    My site? I don’t want to get “spammy” so I’ll just leave it like this…
    vintageheavymetal [dot] com

    Again thanks, I’ll let you know.

    Thread Starter shirtguy72

    (@shirtguy72)

    Updated to V 1.0.1
    Set width to 1200 to match my theme, no issues!

    If you want to have a look….
    https://www.vintageheavymetal [dot] com/videos/ronnie-james-dio-interview-1994/

    Thread Starter shirtguy72

    (@shirtguy72)

    Wanted to pick your brain again: Seems that after placeholder image click on mobile it takes some time for video playback. Can something be done to prefetch/preconnect to YouTube Frontend Proxy?

    I tried adding the following in my header with no effect
    <link rel=”dns-prefetch” href=”YOUTUBE/” >
    <link rel=”preconnect” href=”YOUTUBE/” crossorigin>

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