{"id":727,"date":"2026-01-30T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:12:53","slug":"do-videos-slow-down-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/do-videos-slow-down-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"DO VIDEOS SLOW DOWN A WEBSITE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>
\r\nThis is a question that I\u2019m often asked. It has come from both clients AND website designers \u2013 who should know better, by the way. \r\nVideo is probably the best tool for marketing your business and getting found by potential customers. Videos enhance your expertise. Videos enhance trust in your business. And when it comes to showing off your product, or showing what your customers think of your product<\/a>, there is no better way to communicate.

Many video files can be extremely large. Even 30 second videos can be close to a gigabyte in size, which could indeed make your website load very slowly. The size of the video player can also be a factor. However, there are some editing programs which will reduce the size of a video file while keeping the quality intact. These tools can play your videos while barely making a tic in your website speed.

The graphic above shows an analysis of my website. I have a video or multiple videos<\/a> on almost every page. Apart from the fact that the SEO checker did not like a couple of my page titles<\/a>, the score is excellent with no speed issues. Optimizing my content makes the difference.

Don\u2019t be afraid of adding videos to your website or blog if speed is an issue. You may just be surprised at how fast customers start responding to you instead.
–that\u2019s a wrap

Ron Harper is the founder of Videos On Your Website, a Cincinnati digital marketing firm specializing in video web content for businesses. Read more at Videos ON Your Website.<\/em>
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This is a question that I\u2019m often asked. It has come from both clients AND website designers \u2013 who should know better, by the way. Video is probably the best tool for marketing your business and getting found by potential customers. Videos enhance your expertise. Videos enhance trust in your business. And when it comes … Continue reading DO VIDEOS SLOW DOWN A WEBSITE?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,1,76,92],"tags":[96,90,37,34,36],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimonials","category-uncategorized","category-video-as-content","category-video-seo-and-optimization","tag-cincinnati-business-video-testimonials","tag-cincinnati-video-production","tag-google-rankings","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-video-seo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/videosonyourwebsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}