Font Awesome Extra Auto-Optimizations

  • Resolved nicholasff

    (@nicholasff)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    AutOptimize has some great features (under ‘Extra Auto-Optimizations’) for helping load Google Fonts nicely, but none for Font Awesome (or other fonts).

    I am using Font Awesome’s CDN and trying to improve mobile load times on my site, which is very icon-heavy above the fold when viewed on mobile. It would be very helpful if I could apply either the ‘Combine and link in head’ or ‘Combine and link deferred in head’ to Font Awesome specifically, or to all fonts.

    Thanks for the great Plug-In, I already submitted a 5-star review.

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Well, for Google Fonts AO combines all different requests for CSS-files from fonts.googleapis.com/css and adds a display=swap parameter in the querystring so that the response from Google adds font-display:swap to each @font-face declaration in the CSS.

    I don’t see how the above would apply to fontawesome?

    Thread Starter nicholasff

    (@nicholasff)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Now that I think about it, this proposal is very different from a software development perspective, but very similar from a user (website configurer) perspective.

    With respect to ‘combining’, my website loads three different revisions of Font Awesome 5 Solid Icons; I think it may be possible for AO to change all the FA5 icons to the latest rev, thus ‘combining’ them to one download. This may be difficult, and it may break some websites, I don’t know much about web development.

    With respect to ‘linking in head’, it would be very helpful to load icons earlier than is done by default (basically last), especially when they make up a significant portion of the user interface (as on mobile). This could be done by preloading or something like that, I am not exactly sure how this might work (as I don’t know much about web development).

    Again, these are just suggestions/ideas, not bug reports or anything; AO works great, and has been a significant help for me.

    Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Interesting, I’ll add it to my backlog to look into at one point Nicolas.

    frank

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