Cleaning up font awesome for speed?

Yes I did this it and it saved several 100KB of data per page load. it was a tremendous optimization.

I used https://fontstore.baidu.com/static/editor/index-en.html and uploaded all the font awesome typefaces I was using and removed all the glyphs but the 5 or 7 or so that I actually use. I believe that brought my data transfer down ~300KB per page load with zero drawback. ihad to use the Chrome dev tool s css coverage tool to excise the unneeded ss and preserve the necessary elements.

The interface of that baidu site is a little frustrating to use but it was well worth the effort. I don’t understand why this isn’t a standard optimization for plugin authors.

It’s just low hanging fruit. Between that and the cloudflare edge workers my page load speed is now often <200ms on a very very beastly plugin-heavy site on shared hosting. I used this worker: https://github.com/pmeenan/cf-workers/tree/master/streaming-optimizations

But I just read they released an official version: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-automatic-platform-optimization-for-wordpress-using-cloudflare-workers/

Bar none, this edge caching for dynamic WP pages is the single most impactful optimization you can do and it’s set it and forget it. I recommend it to everyone,