diff --git a/src/components/YouTube/index.tsx b/src/components/YouTube/index.tsx
index 6babf82b55..7a58afe3ee 100644
--- a/src/components/YouTube/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/YouTube/index.tsx
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export function YouTube({ ID }: { ID: string; }): ReactNode {
       <iframe
         src={`https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/${ID}?controls=0&rel=0&modestbranding=1`}
         title="Informational explainer"
+        loading="lazy"
         allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" // tilt screen
         allowFullScreen
         style={{
diff --git a/src/pages/index.mdx b/src/pages/index.mdx
index 714e6f1caf..047fe5d110 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.mdx
+++ b/src/pages/index.mdx
@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@ description: "Build decentralized apps, issue assets, and write smart contracts
 import WayfindingBoxes from "@site/src/components/Homepage/WayfindingBoxes";
 import NavigatingTheDocs from "@site/src/components/Homepage/NavigatingTheDocs";
 import DeveloperResources from "@site/src/components/Homepage/DeveloperResources";
-import PathfindingTable from "@site/src/components/Homepage/PathfindingTable";
+import YouTube from "@site/src/components/YouTube";
 
 # Welcome to Stellar Developer Docs
 
-Stellar is a layer-1 open-source, decentralized, peer-to-peer blockchain network that provides a framework for developers to create applications, issue assets, write smart contracts, and connect to existing financial rails. Stellar is designed to enable creators, innovators, and developers to build projects on the network that can interoperate with each other.
+Stellar is a layer-1, open-source, decentralized, peer-to-peer blockchain network. Developers use its framework to create applications, issue assets, write smart contracts, and connect to existing financial rails. Further, the network lets creators, innovators, and developers build projects that can interoperate with each other, for everyone.
 
-The developer docs will teach you how to build applications, issue and use tokens, write smart contracts, set up on and off-ramps, set up a validator node, and more.
+<div style={{ width: "max(50%, min(100%, 320px))", margin: "0 auto" }}>
+  <YouTube ID="lNcil-1GmCc" />
+</div>
+
+The developer docs explain how to build applications, issue and use tokens, write smart contracts, set up on- and off-ramps, set up a validator node, and much more.
 
 ## **Stellar for...**