A standard copy-and-paste YouTube embed lands on your page as an which loads a big ol’ pile of other stuff to play that video. But the UX of it is still essentially an image and a play button. Click the play button and the video plays. You can build essentially the same thing with an anchor link wrapping an image!<br /> Not long ago, we covered a very clever “lazy load” technique doing exactly this from Arthur Corenzan that was further improved by Remy Sharp and Adrian Roselli.<br /> Paul Irish has tackled it as well with a <lite-youtube> web component:<br /> Provide videos with a supercharged focus on visual performance. 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