WP YouTube Lyte WordPress Plugin
High performance YouTube video, playlist and audio-only embeds which don't slow down your blog and offer optimal accessibility.
WP YouTube Lyte allows you to "lazy load" your video's, by inserting responsive "Lite YouTube Embeds". These look and feel like normal embedded YouTube, but only call the actual "fat" Flash or HTML5-player when clicked on, thereby reducing download size & rendering time substantially when embedding YouTube occasionally and improving page performance dramatically when you've got multiple YouTube video's on one and the same page.
Just add a YouTube-link for a video or an entire playlist with "httpv" (or "httpa" to embed YouTube's a
accessibility
audio
html5 video
lazy load
lite youtube embeds
lyte
microdata
performance
playlist
responsive
sidebar
video
videoobject
widget
youtube
youtube audio
Sites running WP YouTube Lyte, click to open one
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Usage of WP YouTube Lyte over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 229 to 420 — up 191 (+83.4%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 420 | +11 |
| June 2024 | 409 | +7 |
| May 2024 | 402 | +3 |
| April 2024 | 399 | +13 |
| March 2024 | 386 | +21 |
| February 2024 | 365 | +10 |
| January 2024 | 355 | +7 |
| December 2023 | 348 | +42 |
| November 2023 | 306 | +3 |
| October 2023 | 303 | +18 |
| September 2023 | 285 | +30 |
| August 2023 | 255 | +12 |
| July 2023 | 243 | +14 |
| June 2023 | 229 | — |
Themes used with WP YouTube Lyte
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Generatepress |
| 2 | Genesis |
| 3 | Avada |
| 4 | Astra |
| 5 | Hueman |
| 6 | Twentyfourteen |
| 7 | Twentytwelve |
| 8 | Bb-theme |
| 9 | Avada-child-theme |
| 10 | Suffusion |
| 11 | Enfold |
| 12 | Cado |
| 13 | U-design |
| 14 | Arras |
| 15 | Tempera |
| 16 | Bb-theme-child |
| 17 | Reboot |
| 18 | Mh-magazine |
| 19 | Rehub |
| 20 | Kadence |
Sites running WP YouTube Lyte
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