We have a couple videos set to auto play, everything is working great, site appears to load fast…but when I run through GTMetrix and check the Waterfall Chart I see these videos causing some SERIOUS page fully loaded seconds.
That report tells me your onload time was 3.4 seconds.
I think you may be confusing your load time with the entire amount of time the agent spent sending requests to/from your site.
The vimeo player is sending player stats up to the vimeo server every few milliseconds. This is normal, and part of the player interaction with the vimeo server.
Hutley, you rock. Thanks, I probably am reading it wrong. I just see a lot of RED when I run the first page through GTMetrix that has a few people scratching their heads over here, particularly the “Fully Loaded Time”.