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What are these erroneous files?

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When I save a homepage I am building, I get this folder: ggdXiRNv4b4_data.
In it is the attached screenshot.

It turns out these files are from Youtube. As I have a video embedded in the homepage.

Is a Youtube video on the homepage now, a good or bad thing, SEO wize, considering it adds over 1mb of data to be loaded...??
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Re: What are these erroneous files?

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...You're building the site? I don't understand how you don't know what those files are if you are making the site. Like, how did they even get on your computer without you knowing? Did you just download stuff and stick it into your project without checking what it was?

Embedding a Youtube video on the homepage should take exactly 0 extra files: you put an <iframe> in the page. That's it. No Javascript, no files, nothing else. Heck, they even give you a method from the video itself to get the appropriate HTML markup.
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Well damn me, I just did the same thing. I got a YouTube video, embdded it.
Then I went to view it in Firefox and then Save Page As, and it downloads files, including a folder with over 1mb in it.

You do it - see what happens.
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We also have the Google Maps embed code on the homepage, and that is nearly 1mb.
I guess what I am asking is, if it is embedded, the doing the "Save Page As"... does that give a false impression of how much data is is downalod.. ie... the size of the page?!
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Why are you doing a Save Page? That's a completely different thing. Copy the <iframe> code they give you and paste it into the page wherever you want.

And embedding will host the video from Youtube - not from your server.
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just trying to establish how much "download" the page is taking. If it' downloading it from other sources (Facebook. YouTube...) I assume that doesn't affect the performance of my own page then?
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The "download" is literally just the HTML markup. Those 100 or so bytes. Everything else comes from the YouTube servers and, no, doesn't affect you or your page.
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