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If I embed a Youtube video on my web page, what are the data usage implications on my server?
I have a shared web hosting plan for my website with a data transfer limit of 5 GB/month. When a user plays video on my site, is my server taxed for data transfer i.e. if the video is of size 1GB, is my data transfer limit decreased by 1GB?
And is my server processor taxed for video streaming?
What other things should I be concerned about?
Is there any link you can point me towards? That will be helpful.
Thanks
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Some benefits of embedding a YouTube video are: Since the video plays from YouTube servers, it won't take up your storage or bandwidth. The data transfer won't take up your hosting account bandwidth. The YouTube player is optimized for any browser and device so you can be confident the video will play reliably.
Embedding Youtube videos on your website is a great way to engage more visitors and make your content more compelling. The other big advantage is having another source of content to rank in search engines.
Video embed benefits your overall search engine optimization, as your video will play faster and have better quality when hosted on a third-party server. Additionally, since different browsers support different video formats, you'd have to convert your video files for each browser and upload and host multiple videos.
One of the easiest and most effective ways to significantly improve your website's SEO footprint in Google is by embedding YouTube videos in your website's pages and blog posts. It's a relatively easy task to embed your YouTube videos in your website's pages and posts.
Both the youtube player and the video content is streamed from Youtube's server. The only price you pay is the few bytes it takes to add the video player embed code in your HTML pages.
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