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LOL why was your comment dead? Anyways, two tests I'd recommend is to disable autoplay in the videos and profile, and the other test would be to try different file formats. My test personally was in Firefox Linux, however it seems the problem also happens on macOS. Anyways, the website is great and I thoroughly enjoyed this article, so even though you're new to making websites I still think you're better than 99% of web developers.

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Thanks! I'll try to play around with it a bit. This post is by far the longest of mine so far so it's a good stress test page.

Couple of other things to try.

Hold off on loading and playing the videos until they are visible: https://web.dev/lazy-loading-video/#video-gif-replacement

Automatically pause the video when they are scrolled off the screen and no longer visible: https://benfrain.com/automatically-play-and-pause-video-as-i...

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