Using an external source harms performance

  • Resolved paulogoncalves

    (@paulogoncalves)


    1 year ago

    Smush installs the smush-rd.min.css and smush-admin.min.css files in the folder: /wp-content/plugins/wp-smushit/app/assets/css. These files use: @import url(https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Roboto:400,500,700);
    Using this feature harms the site’s performance and lowers the PageSpeed ​​score. The ideal way to avoid this is to use fonts hosted on the site’s own server. Something extremely simple to do. Just install the fonts in a plugin folder and use them. This would avoid harming the performance of sites that use the plugin. My question is: Is it possible to do this?

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  • Plugin Support Jair – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport15)

    1 year ago

    Hello @paulogoncalves

    Although, indeed, Smush loads some fonts for external sites, these are not used, nor loaded, in the frontend of your site by default. These fonts are used only in the backend of your site, when checking settings from the Smush plugin, so these shouldn’t affect the performance of your site.

    The only scenario when these fonts are loaded in the frontend of your site, is when the setting to “Detect and show incorrectly sized images” is enabled, and even then, this only happens for a logged in administrator. If you want to avoid this, go to Smush -> Settings -> General and disable the option to “Detect and show incorrectly sized images”.

    If you find another scenario when these fonts are loaded in the frontend of your site when visitors checks your pages, please let us know.

    Kind regards,
    Jair.

    Thread Starter paulogoncalves

    (@paulogoncalves)

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the information. I will do new tests.

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