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

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

Disable all Video rules

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

Enable only this rule

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