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Youtube API is slowing down the site for users in China since the youtube script will not load. The API is being called by FVPlayer (Fv-player-youtube.min.js). Was this added to a recent version? Is there a way to disable the youtube API?
https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api
GET /iframe_api HTTP/3
Host: http://www.youtube.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0
Accept: /
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://www.pinganlushang.com/
Cookie: YSC=pHAeOArea6I; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=Ml_2ZWXX96Y
Sec-Fetch-Dest: script
Sec-Fetch-Mode: no-cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
TE: trailers
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Hello Mark,
we only load YouTube if it’s used in FV Player on the page.
It seems you are using Settings -> FV Player -> Compatibility/Integrations -> “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere”. Are you loading posts with Ajax anywhere on the website?
If there is a YouTube video then a small part of the YouTube script (55kB) is loaded on page load, but it’s done in a non-blocking way. But I see the web browser does show that the page is still loading.
So we adjusted it a bit to not show the loading indicator on the tab if the YouTube API is slow to load initially.
To be able to test this improvement please reinstall FV Player from this link: http://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip
Finally clicking the video to play loads the bulk of the YouTube player (about 800 kB) and once it’s loaded it plays.
Thanks,
MartinMartin:
Thanks for your response. FV Player was updated with the fv-wordpress-flowplayer.zip file that you sent.
Our site does not have any YouTube videos, so the code should never try to load even with JS everywhere set.
The ULike plugin does use Ajax, but as far as we know, it does not add video.
Thanks,
MarkHello Mark,
we provide that “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere” setting for special integrations of FV Player. Adding another setting to it of which libraries should load is technically possible, but it would make it so much harder to use.
You said the only plugin which uses Ajax for your website front-end is WP ULike (we use it on some websites too) so please try to disable “Load FV Flowplayer JS everywhere” and test your website videos to see if anything breaks.
Or do remember enabling that setting for some page builder?
Thanks,
Martin
