There's more to it. Youtube's own embed is by itself harmful just due to the sheer size of it - Google's own Lighthouse will mark youtube embeds as bad practic

There's more to it. Youtube's own embed is by itself harmful just due to the sheer size of it - Google's own Lighthouse will mark youtube embeds as bad practices for many reasons. And will provide you with an article on how to replace the official Youtube embed with third-party libraries: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/third-party-facades/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/thi... - Google's own "Performance leader at Chrome" penned an article for web.dev where he mentions that you should use this other third-party library https://web.dev/articles/iframe-lazy-loading https://web.dev/articles/iframe-lazy-loading