• I downloaded this plugin quite long ago but was putting off to put it in until recently got down to the site speed optimization. Current HTTP/2.0 quite insensitive in how many files to transfer and the modern network allow to ignore extra MB to transfer but it’s still very sensitive to the process of site connection. So, when you site uses font directly from google it means that user browser have to set up one connection more to one site more.
    1) In my experience, although I use just 1 google font, transferring it from my site (instead of google site as it’s goes in default) increased my site speed tests unexpectedly significantly. So, the plugin is very useful!
    2) It’s more simple than it looks from the first glance. The best strategy is just do nothing with it’s settings except to choose your language sebsets, although “Load Early” I would tick up in default. Actually I would redesigned the settings page to avoid the first glance confusion. But if to put up with it’s design you figure out that it’s very simple !
    3) Happily it works very fast and steadily.
    4) I figured out how to optimize using browser cache for fonts and what is necessary change in plugin. Author reacted and made this changes the same day! It’s really great!

    Many thanks, for your work, Daan!

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  • Plugin Author DaanvandenBergh

    (@daanvandenbergh)

    Thanks for taking the time to write a review and your feedback!

    although “Load Early” I would tick up in default

    Too many preloads is bad for performance. So, that’s why it’s not checked by default.

    Thread Starter Alexander Guskov

    (@forcesail)

    Too many preloads is bad for performance

    …. but a flicking site due of re-rendering after loading fonts that have different proportions is absolute eval.

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