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Issue 11

The video on your homepage is 200MB

Phones shoot 4K, WordPress accepts the file without comment, and your mobile visitors pay for it. Server-side optimisation isn't an option on managed hosting with no ffmpeg. Here's what web-ready actually means — H.264, 1080p, CRF 23, faststart — and a plugin that transcodes in the editor's own browser.

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13 August 2026