SheriM 0 Posted October 8 Hi guys, on my site grow-wild.co, I have a home page banner video linked via YouTube - it takes anything from 3-7 seconds to load. I uploaded a fallback image (a still from the video) to display in the hope that it would load very quickly and make the user experience better. But the image takes a minimum of 3 seconds to load and in the mean time the user sees a black background. This obviously isn't ideal! I have spoken to SS support and they can't offer me a work around - there is no way to change the black background colour without overlaying a colour ontop of the video/image. The image size is just 150kb. Does anyone have any suggestions? Have you found a work around for this? Thanks! Share this post Link to post
colin.irwin 17,341 Posted October 8 This plugin should help - https://www.squarewebsites.org/products/background-videos-utils I used it on a client site recently and it works perfectly. NB. I didn't write this plugin and I am not affiliated with the author. 1 christyprice reacted to this Please hit LIKE to share your appreciation of posts that are helpful or useful. The like button is somewhere over there Of course, Likes don't pay the bills.. If you're looking for a Squarespace Developer you can hire me here Share this post Link to post
javitag 0 Posted October 28 On 10/8/2019 at 10:00 AM, SheriM said: Hi guys, on my site grow-wild.co, I have a home page banner video linked via YouTube - it takes anything from 3-7 seconds to load. I uploaded a fallback image (a still from the video) to display in the hope that it would load very quickly and make the user experience better. But the image takes a minimum of 3 seconds to load and in the mean time the user sees a black background. This obviously isn't ideal! I have spoken to SS support and they can't offer me a work around - there is no way to change the black background colour without overlaying a colour ontop of the video/image. The image size is just 150kb. Does anyone have any suggestions? Have you found a work around for this? Thanks! Hi there, did you find a solution for this? thanks! Share this post Link to post
mynameisbrand 1 Posted November 1 I'm having this question too. Kind of. The cover page video is apparently too slow loading on some desktop versions - and pulls the mobile image. But on my phone (iPhone 6S) it sometimes display the video ... I assumed it would pull the mobile fallback image here (but that might depend on connection speed?). Share this post Link to post