(Entry was posted by Tina Willis on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/27/2017).
Lazy load or not?
Hello. I have what I think is a very technical question.
One of my friends emailed someone else and expressed it this way (he wouldn`t mind my sharing; we are trying to find an answer):
You recommended that site owners publish videos to their sites (using Wistia or Vimeo) at least 90 days or so prior to sharing the video on YT so our sites will receive credit for the video.
I shared on G+ and +Tina Willis has raised an interesting issue that is far over my head and neither of us can find an answer.
We are both on shared hosting with CDN -- A2 and Siteground but still, it`s shared hosting. Due to site speed concerns, we`re considering using lazy loading to load our Wistia videos. Benchmark tests indicate that a site with one Wistia video will load in 4 seconds without lazy loading where it requires only two seconds to fully loaded when lazy loading is turned on.
But, articles indicate that G does not crawl a lazy loaded video and could not do so if they wanted to.
Assuming this information is correct, would you rather have a site that loaded in 4 seconds and receive "credit" for the content of the video? OR, would you rather use lazy load and have the improved load times?
I have not seen anyone address this question. Do you have an opinion?
Thanks very much for any insight!
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