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0 pointscoinfused3y ago0 comments

Interesting! Indeed no APNGS, only MP4, png and WebM. Will try to see if I can do some more profiling but I am very new to making websites. Using eleventy as a static site generator and then doing some image compression also.

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doodlesdev3y ago· 2 in thread

LOL why was your comment dead? Anyways, two tests I'd recommend is to disable autoplay in the videos and profile, and the other test would be to try different file formats. My test personally was in Firefox Linux, however it seems the problem also happens on macOS. Anyways, the website is great and I thoroughly enjoyed this article, so even though you're new to making websites I still think you're better than 99% of web developers.

coinfusedOP3y ago

Thanks! I'll try to play around with it a bit. This post is by far the longest of mine so far so it's a good stress test page.

tiberriver2563y ago

Couple of other things to try.

Hold off on loading and playing the videos until they are visible: https://web.dev/lazy-loading-video/#video-gif-replacement

Automatically pause the video when they are scrolled off the screen and no longer visible: https://benfrain.com/automatically-play-and-pause-video-as-i...

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