The shared banner video remains unchanged because Elements does not expose safe preload/poster/autoplay controls for it. The biggest future improvement would be replacing it with either:
After publishing, test with a cold-cache mobile connection to compare initial video requests, transferred bytes, LCP, and repeat-navigation caching.
Site with the video background is https://keithnteri.com
The Video component does support a poster/thumbnail image. Can you check if you added one to the component?
There’s also autoplay options available:
I’m guessing this is an AI summary of some sort, could you be more specific about what features you actually need?
Hey @colinmac can you look into this, and if we’re missing anything in the video component, create a ticket for @ben to implement it.
Hey Keith, thanks for writing this up.
Dan is right that Video already has a poster/thumbnail and autoplay options (plus mute, loop, and controls for mp4). Worth checking those on the banner video first if you have not already.
I looked at what the component actually exposes. The one clear gap for the cold-cache / LCP case is a preload control (none / metadata / auto). That is not in the Video settings today, so I have flagged it for Ben.
If you are after a true background video treatment, Container is the separate path for that, rather than stretching Video into a banner.
Happy to dig further once you say which bits still feel missing after trying poster + autoplay.
