Does adding a YouTube video to a page decrease site speed?

[ProjectLabs]

If you embed a YouTube video on your page, does Google count that as part of their site speed calculation. Since it is in a iFrame, I would think that it is not counted.

[PhilNottingham]

Hey,

As you correctly indentify - since a standard YouTube embed is in an iFrame, the content loads separately and wont effect site speed. If you choose to use an older style flash based YouTube embed, then this will require a bit of loading, but it wont be significant or anything to be concerned with. However, if you were to have a single page with tons of flash embeds, then this could be slightly problematic - so avoid that and use iFrames where possible.

Phil

[SEOExecutive20]

You can find out by utilizing Google page speed online here:

https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/