Introduction
Nowadays, there are many ways to attract more visitors to your site. One of the most effective ones is displaying interesting videos on your site. Currently, you can showcase videos by uploading videos directly to your site or embedding the iFrame code of the videos on your site. However, uploading videos has some drawbacks. So, in today’s blog, we will explain why you should embed videos in WordPress instead of uploading. Let’s start now!
Why you should embed videos in WordPress instead of uploading
To help you understand why, let’s first look at the key difference between the two methods.
When you upload a video to your site, you host the video yourself. This is the same as uploading images to your website via add media.
On the other hand, if you embed a video on your WordPress site, you use a video hosted on a third-party site and embed it in your posts or pages. All you need to do is get the embed code of the video from the third-party site or directly get the URL of the video. After that, you just add it using an iFrame on your site. This method sounds more complicated than uploading videos directly to your website. However, we recommend that you choose this way. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons below.
Easy sharing and managing
If you upload your videos to YouTube or other video-sharing sites and then embed them on your site, you can easily manage the list of videos. Everything will become easier and simpler. Your viewers can also share the videos without any trouble. Conversely, if you upload videos directly to WordPress, it’s difficult for you to generate a separate video section from images and other media. As a result, it will be hard and complicated for you to manage your uploaded videos.
Save on bandwidth
As you know, when you upload videos to your website, you consume hosting bandwidth. The higher the quality and capacity of the video, the more bandwidth it takes. Besides that, in case your visitors embed your uploaded videos on their sites, the bandwidth will get multiplied whenever the videos are watched there. Moreover, you may use more WordPress video plugins to easily manage as well as showcase the videos on your site. Sometimes, if you don’t optimize the speed, the plugins may increase the server load. It will be bad if you are using Shared WordPress Hosting because your host may suspend your site.
Video Quality Optimization
For websites like YouTube or Vimeo, the video quality is processed and optimized to bring the best experience to viewers. Therefore, when you upload a video to video-specialized websites and embed it on your website, viewers can choose HD mode. However, if you upload the videos on your WordPress site, the viewers can’t get the optimized features and the videos will be shown as they are. As a result, you will use more bandwidth and can’t give viewers a great experience.
Besides the three main reasons above, many video hosting platforms also provide you with many useful features that you can’t get if you directly upload the videos on your WordPress site. They include:
- Add auto-captions to your videos to attract more viewers
- Generate custom video thumbnails
- Make money from ads
- See analytics on the number of viewers
- And more…
Conclusion
All in all, we have already shared with you some fundamental reasons why you should embed videos in WordPress instead of uploading them. So, we hope that the information in the blog today will be helpful for you. If you have any questions about the topic, feel free to leave a comment below. We promise we will reply to you as soon as possible. Furthermore, don’t forget that we are offering a lot of responsive Free WordPress Themes. Visit them and pick the most suitable one for your site.
