Google Fonts issue

Can you copy/ paste the resulting link href URL from the HTML source when “Combine and link deferred in head” is active Bob?

frank

any news Bob?

Frank, I know how to “show source” from the developer tools, but I see no way to share a url from the source.

However, I can capture the source content of the home page with “Combine and link deferred in head” enabled, and share it with you privately, if that would be of any help.

Well, in the HTML source you should see

<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="<...>" id="ao_optimized_gfonts" href="..." />

it is the href value there that is of interest to us ??

How about this?

<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="this.onload=null;this.media='all';" id="ao_optimized_gfonts" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A400italic%2C400%2C600%2C700%7CRoboto+Slab%3A400%2C300%2C700&display=swap" />

OK, that’s a start. 2nd part is that I would need to see what fonts are loaded when “optimize google fonts” is not active, can you share your site’s URL maybe Bob?

FranK:

Sent you a note via your site’s contact form.

received it, thanks!

your original Google Font CSS request from your site now
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A400italic%2C400%2C600%2C700%7CRoboto+Slab%3A400%2C300%2C700&ver=5.7

and with AO active this becomes
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A400italic%2C400%2C600%2C700%7CRoboto+Slab%3A400%2C300%2C700&display=swap

the difference being the display=swap parameter. I also compared the contents of the two files and there indeed the difference is in the font-display:swap line added to each @font-face which is normal.

Now that (font-)display:swap is there to ensure the Google Fonts don’t block rendering of the page, but as a consequence the page will initially render with system fonts until the Google Fonts are loaded. Is that what you are seeing, or does the problem remain even after the remote fonts have loaded?

With “combine and link deferred in head”, the problem remains when the site is fully loaded, and I see a lot of undesired fonts.

If you have the time available and would like to contact me privately, I’ll be happy to provide a real-time demonstration!

afraid real-time is not something I can get done bobjones, but if you have a stagingsite where you could leave things broken that could work?

I won’t be able to stage the site, Frank, but appreciate your attention to this issue.

I’ll just check “Leave as is”, since that works best.