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Samuel Nathaniel
• Jul 6
That shitty Lighthouse score on the Reachly site is officially gone.
If you saw my post yesterday, you know Framer’s native YouTube component completely tanked the Accessibility and SEO scores for Reachly because of a hidden thumbnail "alt text" error.
I could have just handed the site off with a "yellow" score and called it a day. But ignoring what's under the hood is a massive mistake - technical debt like that is a silent killer for your client's SEO/Google rankings.
Instead, I found a 20-minute workaround that brought back those clean, green circles in the 90s.
Since a lot of you asked for the fix, I just published a quick, step-by-step breakdown on Substack. No fluff, just the exact HTML embed parameters you need to tweak to bypass the bug and keep your layouts responsive.
You can see the BEFORE & AFTER results and grab the full tutorial right here: 👇👇👇
https://open.substack.com/pub/samuelnathaniel/p/how-i-fixed-the-youtube-thumbnail?r=i28az&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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How I fixed the YouTube thumbnail “Alt Text” bug in Framer and up-ed my Lighthouse scores!

Fixing Framer’s Native YouTube Component: A Guide to Solving the “Alt Text” Bug and Boosting Lighthouse Scores.

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