Why you should be hesitant to upload a video to your website

Images, audio, and video make the web rich. Adding videos to your website certainly adds value to your content and increases the likelihood that your audiences would react to it. However, you would notice that most people using the Site.pro, WordPress or Joomla prefer to use a third-party video sharing service such as YouTube or Vimeo to upload their videos.

 

Upload vs. Embed (There is a Difference)
Uploading or Hosting a video means that you will upload videos on your site like you would upload images on your site. This is the part that we are recommending against.
Embedding a video means that you upload a video on a third-party site like Youtube, and then you can easily embed it on your websites and blog posts. We strongly recommend you to embed videos whenever you can.

 

Easy Sharing
Embedding a video on your website is easier. You can share a video uploaded on YouTube or other video sharing sites by just pasting the URL in your blog posts. It is also easier to manage a channel on YouTube. On the other hand, it is not so simple in the CMS site builders to create a video section separately from your images and other uploads. You can take your video uploaded on YouTube to social media and reach out to a wider audience. By uploading your video on YouTube and other video sharing sites, you make it easier for your viewers to share your video.

 

Bandwidth
Uploading videos to your website will cost you bandwidth. Higher quality videos cost more bandwidth. If you allow users to embed it on their own websites, then the bandwidth gets multiplied each time the video is embedded elsewhere. You will probably also have to add more apps or plugins to manage and display your videos. These apps will also increase your server load.

 

Visibility and Traffic
According to Alexa rankings, YouTube is one of the world’s most used search engines. This alone compels many website owners to upload their videos to YouTube. Uploading a video on YouTube can bring more viewers than uploading it on your own website. Social networking features of YouTube and other video sharing websites can trigger the viral popularity of your videos.

 

Video Quality Optimization
When you upload a video on sites like YouTube or Vimeo, they process each video for better web experience. Viewers can choose whether they would like to watch your video in HD or on lower resolutions. Also, these websites attempt to automatically detect a user’s internet connection and device type to play the video in a quality that is best for the viewer. If you upload your video on your website, then you are missing out on those optimizations and your video will display as it is, costing you more bandwidth and destroying the user experience.

 

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