google Fonts slowing web

Oscar, your statements contradict each other.
You claim that fonts that are on your server that are not being used are slowing your site down, and yet you want to put the Google fonts onto your server.

So if you aren’t using the fontello font on your site, you can delete it. Same for the enfold theme, if it’s not being used.

If the Google fonts aren’t slowing your site, why change them? The whole point of using Google fonts is that the visitor might already have that font cached (from another site using it), so they don’t have to wait for it to download. So if you move Google fonts to your site, you lose the advantage of the browser caching the font from Google.
Edit: and also the advantage that Google pays for the bandwidth and storage used, instead of you.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Joy.

Hi Joy,

Well… As I said I’m not an expert and maybe what I’m saying it has no sense, but reading about gstatic fonts the alternative I’ve seen is to install those fonts in the server (local). I don’t know if it’s the better option.

In the case of fontello font, I think I’m not using, but I’m not sure… How can I check if this font is using and how can I delete them?

On the other side, the three next urls do slowing my website, for that reason I said to install in the server, because I’m using these fonts.

https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/josefinslab/v10/lW-5wjwOK3Ps5GSJlNNkMalnqg6v.woff2
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/muli/v16/7Auwp_0qiz-afTLGLQ.woff2
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/dancingscript/v11/If2RXTr6YS-zF4S-kcSWSVi_szLgiuE.woff2

Thank you.
Oscar

You say you are not using fontello, yet it shows in the GTMetrix report. And it looks as though the theme has done what you want and put the font file on your server. So it remains a mystery to me why you want to do that with the other fonts.
To remove fontello, you should examine your theme options or ask in the theme’s support forum.

For the other fonts, you can make the page faster by using fewer fonts.
The visitor still has to load the font file, whether it comes from your server or from Google’s server. Do you think you have a faster server than Google does? And is your visitor more likely to have gotten the font from Google already, or from your server, so that it is cached?

Do you mean that like the other fonts in my server hosting is slowing, fontello will too?

It’s a probability, but I was thinking that maybe the fonts in the server are slowing for any reason (and perhaps it could be fixed), not because of the server speed.

I don’t know if my server is faster than the Google’s server. How could I compare it?