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Check out our new video hero section at GeekyGrowth.com 😎
Adding videos are always tricky above the fold. Website owners want to showcase a video, but making it full-screen immediately can feel aggressive and also hurt site performance thus SEO.
full screen video above the fold really does feel pushy. did you see a speed hit at all
Not a big hit imo. Obviously the fastest hero is plain text on white background:))
But here's what I did to reduce the hit:
I edited the full video into a small ~20s chunk, compressed it with ffmpeg via Claude Code to the smallest version possible. I'm serving as webm with an...
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