![]() ![]() Testing your site through one of the many website speed tools is necessary to determine if locally loaded Google Fonts are actually making your site faster. Secondly, popular fonts like Roboto and Lato are often already cached in the viewers browser. Google loads fonts to global audiences through their own ( Content Delivery Network) – you can see this by testing your site on WebPageTest and then clicking on “ Performance Review“. Loading fonts off of Google servers could actually improve speed (globally) depending on your specific situation. Hosting fonts on your own server is not necessarily optimal – in fact most sites should let Google do the work. I avoid plugins like the plague, but if you choose to use a plugin to host fonts I’ll show you how to use a plugin called CAOS Webfonts | Host Google Fonts Locally. The following steps are specifically designed to work with Google Fonts although this process will work with most fonts. Use Font Fallbacks For Timeouts Or Errorsġ1. I use for all page speed optimization projects since it allows testing on different servers, browsers and (mobile) devices.ġ0. Google Fonts are flagged in all of the major page speed testing services like GTMetrix, Pingdom, WebPageTest and Google Page Speed Insights – reducing your scores and load times. Fonts don’t add much to your total page size -its the extra requests (even small ones) that start adding up quickly. Although Google has fast reliable servers, they usually can’t match locally downloaded files. If this is the case, then every time your site loads it has to download fonts from Google servers. ![]() The majority of WordPress theme developers give users the ability to customize the font on their website using the Google Font open source library. Under the right conditions hosting Google Fonts locally on your own server can reduce HTTP requests, site size and load times. Chances are your WordPress theme has built in Google Font requests that come pre-loaded by the developer. Nothing slows down a WordPress website like too many external HTTP requests. Hosting Google Fonts locally on your own server will reduce total site size, DNS requests and improve load times. ![]()
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