Video Widgets

The EverWeb ThemeKit Video widgets present responsive website video players in different forms with fast download on mobile devices.

Responsive Video

Video files are the largest used in a website so they need to be optimised to the lowest possinle size that will maintain the required quality.

Video Player Essentials

For best results use …

• HTML5 video rather than a "name" player like jPlayer, Plyr etc.
• Insert it in a <figure> element
• Add a title & description in the <figcaption> for best search engine results.
• Insert MP4 video in two sizes for computer & smaller mobile devices
• Lazy loading for page download efficiency

Hosting Files

The best option is self hosted MP4 video files size the file can be optimised for since and a smaller mobile file made available.
Hosted video like Vimeo, YouTube & Wistia may seem a good solution if server storage is limited. However,they are not efficient and require a large number assets which create a lot of extra server requests.
Convert
If the required video is only available hosted on another server a better option is to use an online server to download it in two sizes as MP4.