David

If it helps anyone with The Hue (or a similar theme), the issue is that there’s a file “Styles.php” within the theme folder that is running the ping to Google’s API for fonts.

I primarily wanted to get rid of this for GDPR compliance efforts. If you can, install another font as your websites font(s) and replace the text with your own website’s URL until you can have a proper fix.

File Location:
…wp-content/themes/thehue/main/styles.php

Portion of Script Where Google Fonts is Called:
href=”//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family

Big thanks to Danny for this great FREE plugin!

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Found it! Thank you Danny! I appreciate you!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by David.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by David.

Hi Danny,

Thank you for the help on this, as the detail is incredibly helpful. By chance, would you be able to point me in a direction that could assist me in removing this connection?

I know this is beyond what any user should ask of you, so any guidance you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!

Thank you Marko for the clarification on the details. I’ll consider using W3 Total Cache again later on when I’m ready to bring in a developer. Just having it installed was bringing things to a crawl and loading 6 pages was literally taking an hour, along with constant refreshes from failed loads. My time spent diagnosing was becoming more expensive than the cost of bringing in a dev, and I just need to focus on content at the moment.

If it helps, I previously had my settings matching what was recommended with W3 Total Cache. When my site was smaller it did produce a performance boost. Main URL was loading well, but slowly pages started to chug. Ran tests and noticed CSS files were taking minutes to fully load in. Checked my settings with my Webhost and everything there looked rock solid. Server has never given me issues too. Not sure if there’s was a version issue between PHP, WordPress, webhost servers, and W3 Total. I never got that far into my testing, but I figured more than 16 hours of testing was more than enough.

Almost forgot, the Site Health was posting issues for REST API as well. Double checked settings and that was configured correctly. So I have no clue why it was still an issue. CSS files were taking a long time to load as well. Clearing caches in W3 didn’t improve anything. Removal of W3 Total took care of the problem. No such problem by installing WP Super Cache.