It’s a good idea to add videos to your WordPress site to attract visitors and boost conversions.
However, adding videos to your website can use up a significant amount of storage space and bandwidth, which can increase your hosting costs and create a bad user experience.
This is why you should never upload videos to your WordPress website.
Throughout this article, we will discuss all the reasons why you should never add videos to your WordPress site, as well as ways to add videos to WordPress.
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The answer will be NO. Why so? Well, here is some reason below why you should not add videos to your WordPress site.
It is important to know the difference between uploading and embedding videos before you can understand why you should never upload or host videos in WordPress.
If you upload or host a video, you will use the WordPress media library to add videos to your site, just like you would add images. We do not recommend doing this.
The process of embedding a video involves uploading it to a third-party service, like YouTube, and then including it in your blog post. We strongly recommend embedding videos whenever possible.
WordPress makes it easier to embed videos than to upload them. By pasting the URL of a video posted on YouTube or another video-sharing site into your blog posts, you can share it with your readers.
You can also manage your YouTube channel from your blog. In contrast, it isn’t that easy to separate your video uploads from your images and other uploads in WordPress. You will be able to see your video along with the rest of your media library when you upload it.
Uploading your video to sites such as YouTube and other video-sharing sites will increase its ability to be shared and may even go viral.
You’ll incur bandwidth charges when you upload videos to your website. There is a higher cost associated with high-quality videos.
Video embedding allows your site visitors to multiply the bandwidth each time the video is viewed on their own websites. The more plugins you add, the more easily your videos can be managed and displayed.
You might also experience an increase in server load if you use these plugins that don’t optimize for speed. You can expect your shared web host to temporarily take down your website if you are using shared hosting.
In addition to affecting your SEO rankings and website traffic, speeding up your WordPress site is like never before.
YouTube ranks second in terms of total search engine usage and number one in terms of the number of visited websites. The self-indulgence of uploading videos to YouTube alone compels many website owners to do so.
When you upload a video to YouTube, you are likely to get more viewers than if you upload it on your own website. Video-sharing websites, such as YouTube, can display social networking tools that can help your videos become viral.
Hundreds of thousands of new views are received each week on the ThemeLooks YouTube channel, for example.
In order to provide an improved viewing experience, YouTube and Vimeo process every video you upload. Depending on your video’s resolution, viewers can watch it in HD or in lower resolution.
Furthermore, these websites attempt to automatically detect the type of device and internet connection a viewer has to determine what video quality will be best suited for the viewer based on these factors.
By uploading your video to WordPress, you will lose out on those optimizations, resulting in higher bandwidth usage and a less pleasant viewing experience.
There are also a number of video hosting platforms that allow you to upload videos that you don’t have access to if you just use WordPress.
You can do the following, for example:
Using video hosting services is not only more convenient, but it also solves many of the above issues. The quality of your video will automatically be adjusted according to your visitors’ internet speeds, and some of these services may even enable you to reach new audiences through their platform.
At ThemeLooks, we use YouTube as our video hosting service. You’ll be able to pull even more followers from it since it is the second most popular search engine in the world after Google.
Also, they have a Partner Program that makes money from your videos.
Up to this point, we hope the post helped you learn why you should not add videos to your WordPress site. You may want to see our guide on how you can clear cache files in WordPress. You may also like to see our guide on how you can bulk schedule WordPress blog posts.
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