Slow background videos can hurt your page’s load speed. SmartVideo can accelerate them automatically. Here’s how to set it up.
Accelerating plain <video> tags with videotag is available on the Growth and Pro plans. See plans and pricing.
For WordPress Users:
To auto-convert your videos, go to the SmartVideo plugin Settings and toggle on Optimize background videos & existing videos.
Note: This may conflict with some themes, so it’s a good idea to test it.
For Non-WordPress Users (Manual Install):
To auto-convert all your background videos that are embedded with <video> tags, use the configuration tool in the Swarmify Dashboard to reconfigure the Swarmify snippet to include Background Video Conversions.
If you want to edit the snippet manually, add the line videotag: true right after youtube: true, as shown below.
<script data-cfasync="false">
var swarmoptions = {
swarmcdnkey: "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
autoreplace: {
youtube: true,
videotag: true // <-- Add this line
}
};
</script>
<script data-cfasync="false" src="https://assets.swarmcdn.com/swarmcdn.js"></script>
If you decide that you want all of your video accelerated, but not your background video, simply change videotag: true to videotag: false.
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