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Embed video. YouTube or Vimeo ? Whats best for the pagespeed ?
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Hello,
We want to add video to our website.
We are not sure if to embed it from YouTube or Vimeo.Do you guys know whats best that will not hurt the pagespeed of the site ?
Thank you
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I use YouTube. It is great, as PixelbyPixel said, it is another engine giving you exposure. Not to mention it has a DA of 100 which is a very credible linking source. And it is owned by Google, so my guess is, the engine prefers it as well.
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Wayne -
My hunch is that YouTube might be a tad faster, but why rely on guesswork when you can do a very easy test?
Create two versions of the page, one with the YouTube version, the other with Vimeo, and run them both through external page testing sites, such as http://tools.pingdom.com/ ... and see what happens.
It would be wonderful if you could report back to here what you've found... If you're worried about duplicate content, you can always no-index one of them.
Thanks,
-- Jeff
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It really makes no difference as they would both be around the same, I would recommend YouTube as it is another search engine giving you even more opportunities to be found.
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