Request: Improve Video Loading Priority to Prevent Delayed Image Rendering#418

Hello Stiletto Support Team,

I’m experiencing an issue where videos placed in sections lower on the page are loading before the main images near the top of the product page.
As a result, important hero images are showing a loading spinner while the videos further down start loading immediately.

This negatively affects the LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) and gives the appearance that the main image is “slow” even though the issue is caused by video preload behavior.

What happens:

Videos in video.liquid, video-with-text.liquid, or video-hero.liquid appear to load first

The browser prioritizes video downloading

Hero images above them are delayed and appear blank or loading

Suggested improvement:

Change default video behavior from
preload=”auto” → preload=”none”

(Optional) Add a setting to enable lazy-loading for videos using Intersection Observer

Allow merchants to control video loading priority within the section settings

Why this matters:

It improves page speed

Prevents top images from being blocked

Creates a better user experience

Helps with SEO and conversion

If possible, could you update the theme so that videos do not load before primary images?

Thank you very much for your help and support.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

This one here would be more of a support request rather than a feature request. We recommend sending our support team a message at help@fluorescent.co so they can troubleshoot this for you.

Thank you,