You're loading fonts wrong (and it's crippling your performance)

(jonoalderson.com)

38 points | by speckx a day ago ago

6 comments

  • throwaway81523 18 hours ago ago

    Why does every website want to load fonts at all anyway? Just use the built in ones.

    • nicbou 8 hours ago ago

      In my case, to know that everyone is seeing the same website, optimised for legibility, and with every UI label fitting in its alloted space.

    • 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 15 hours ago ago

      Mostly for branding nonsense

      I have tried some of the accessibility oriented easy to read fonts that are supposed to help with dyslexia but it's hard to justify that megabyte when I am also balancing accessibility of slow computers on bad networks

  • pickledoyster 14 hours ago ago

    since this is coming from a "technical SEO consultant": how about website owners and businesses stop bloating their sites with (mostly useless) trackers and analytics scripts first, before worrying how fonts are _crippling_ their performance

  • alwillis 19 hours ago ago

    As part of the system font stack, we no longer need -apple-system or BlinkMacSystemFont to select the default font on Apple devices.

    You want to use system-ui to select the platform's UI font, which is San Francisco on Apple devices. Availability is about 95% [1].

    [1]:https://caniuse.com/?search=system-ui

  • lofaszvanitt 7 hours ago ago

    Scroll to the bottom of the severely overweight article.