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Video outside the viewport - Google error

Asked by Martin Draeger 3 years ago Last activity 3 years ago

Hello all,

I have embedded my youtube videos into my website. Unfortunately google is penalizing me because my videos are outside their view ports - whatever that means.

While I understand I should be adjusting the size of the embedded video, I still have issues.

So far, I have reduced the width using the width option in SP PB to 85% and added 15px for padding - still getting the error.

Also, when I adjust these parameters, the video justifies to the left and there is not option for center justifying the now small video.

Can someone suggest to me the right way to embed a video from youtube into a module in sp pagebuilder?

Thanks

Marty

1 reply

Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
3 years ago · edited

Hi Marty,

videos are outside their view ports - whatever that means.

I wish to be Google employee, so that I can answer you in the only right way. But I am not.

Try to add right and left margin to Video addon (15px), it may help, at least helped me ones.

Here are three practical tips found on technology blog that could help you:

  • Experiment with different video embed dimensions. Try to make them smaller, but not too small, because having tiny videos on your pages could impact the user experience. Technically, the lowest limit allowable by ‘Googlebots’ is 140px.
  • Check video scaling – there could be an issue with an aspect ratio, when the width of the video does not match its height well. Note that in theory, this could be a matter of single pixels.
  • Some users commented that changing video size in HTML code from absolute (fixed) values to relative values (expressed in percentage in respect to the screen size) may also work.

Nevertheless, the presence of this " error" should not affect the performance of the pages, at least according to Google. These updates are helpful for website owners looking to enhance their video indexing and search visibility on Google.

Ask Google / Bing for more tips ....

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