Video Thumbnail

Checks that videos have poster/thumbnail images


Rule ID	`video/video-thumbnail`
Category	Video
Scope	Per-page
Severity	info
Weight	3/10

Solution

Video poster images improve perceived performance and user experience. For HTML5 video, use the poster attribute. For embedded videos, thumbnailUrl in VideoObject schema. Thumbnails should be high quality, relevant to content, and properly sized (recommend 1280x720 or higher).

Enable / Disable

Disable this rule

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
disable = ["video/video-thumbnail"]

Disable all Video rules

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
disable = ["video/*"]

Enable only this rule

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
enable = ["video/video-thumbnail"]
disable = ["*"]

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