TL;DR: it’s not stuffed with bloat
Other video players are often filled with bloat, like heavy user tracking mechanisms, ad code, and “related video” mechanisms. These bog down page load speeds.
The SmartVideo player is lightweight and nimble, loading in just 64 milliseconds on average. This ensures your page is never hampered by overstuffed video players again.
The player also reserves its final layout box from the first paint, so you don’t take a Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) hit while the video sizes itself. Embeds with explicit dimensions, fluid embeds, and converted YouTube embeds all stay put through load - one of the biggest wins in your Core Web Vitals.