Videos on Home Page
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Hello,
My company is currently in the process of editing our website's homepage. My creative team wants to add several videos to an already big home page. I would like a more simple and less interactive home page. There has to be close to a half dozen videos already on the page.
I know that Google bots have trouble crawling some items like java. I also know that page speed is a huge factor and the mobile first index is quickly approaching. Is it ok to have all of these videos on home page? Could this due harm to the page. All the videos are hosted on Vimeo and typically expand from some sort of icon.
Page load time has been an issue and this will probably be our last update before google's mobile first index. I just want to make sure I am giving the correct advice by saying there is no problem with 6+ videos on a home page.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks!
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We're attempting to shorten the content and length of the home page, remove some gifs/images. I am hoping that we wouldn't keep many videos, but the team wants to add/keep them.
I am hoping to see great results just from the removal of all the crap, but I want them to know that the more videos on the homepage, the longer it will take to load all of those videos. Google Page Speed Insights has us already at the 40s/100 for desktop and mobile. We've compressed images, removed/replaced svg images, compressed gifs, and were still hovering around that page speed. Google Developer Tools from Google Chrome shows us at almost 40 second total load time.
We're working on our backlinks and really are not that bad as far as our profile is concerned. I am just hoping that if we fix this home page speed issue, the rankings will follow suite.
I was unsure if the actions/automations around the videos could be a problem. I don't know if there is or isn't javascript involved. Sorry, not the most tech savvy, but also not the worst. Our videos are either placed in carousel or under an icon/button that shows a video preview as an image when you hover over the icon. Not sure if that is or is not java. Our videos are hosted on vinmeo and are embedded in the page.
I plan on explaining to them that if we want to try to rank for one of these videos then they probably would need their own page or to be placed on a very relevant page. Other than that, is there anything else I can go with? Too many videos considered a poor practice in preparation for the mobile index? If I am wrong or overreacting, then I'll let them put up their videos, but if people have seen results where to many videos hurt the mobile experience or page load time, please let me know.
Thanks again!
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If you already have loading speed problems having lots of videos definitely won't help.
Regarding Java I take it you mean JavaScript as opposed to Java by Oracle? Google can the some degree at least interpret JavaScript these days but the more scripts you have on the page the more time it will take to load.
If it was me I would consider making sub- pages with one or two videos on each (or as many as necessary) that way you can have a broader coverage of keywords and the pages should load quicker.
You could look at using YouTube, it may load quicker.
All the best
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