A lightweight Gutenberg video block that only loads player libraries upon click, drastically boosting Core Web Vitals.
Embedding YouTube or Vimeo videos slows down page loading with 1MB+ of third-party scripts. Story Video Block renders a lightweight facade that loads the real player only when clicked.
Replaces heavy external iframes with responsive poster images and SVG play triggers, eliminating render-blocking resources and driving PageSpeed performance scores from ~45 to 98+.