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@zachleat This is what always makes me laugh about how aggressive Google has been with core web vitals—it’s literally their external code that is slowing everything down. When I added a script that replaced YouTube embeds with images, that helped my CWVs a lot.

Zach Leatherman :11ty:

@ernie Yeah: Google is basically hundreds of different companies—most of Google’s performance advice can be viewed as though it is aimed directly at other teams at Google. I think in many cases the web performance resources were prepared with that in mind.

Notably, the solution I recommend is a web component written by a Google employee 😅