Facebook Redesigns Embedded Posts To Boost Photo And Video Display

Moving to make its content look better and appear faster on third-party sites, Facebook has made adjustments to its embedded post feature.

Embedded posts will load up to twice as fast, Facebook announced in a blog post today, and posts that include photos and videos will display the visual elements above the textual descriptions (the opposite of how they appear on Facebook.

The new look for such posts is very similar to embedded tweets. For example:

Facebook also has given publishers slightly more control of display, adding an option to adjust the width embeds. Users can set a default, which will persist on subsequent posts a user makes.