REPLACE Google Fonts

Did you know Google Fonts is bloated and can cause longer load times? Bunny fonts to the rescue!

[davidg]

I avoid the GDPR and latency issue by not using them via APIs. If the license allows it, I'll download and host the font directly instead (Google Fonts' license allows this, I haven't looked at Bunny's license).

[ussul]

Yep, having your own stuff is always better. Nice move to do both providers.

[FarrellMcGovern]

I don't know about today, but back in the days of yore when bandwidth was a challenge, one of the things that we found that sped up websites, especially graphically intensive ones was the pictures. Most would use a full resolution picture, with the 16 million colour palate. If you cut down the size of the graphic, and remap it to a 256 colour palate, sites became blazing fast on initial load. Maybe it's an optimization for a website that has passed it day, but then again, I don't develop websites anymore. :-)

[spongly]

Amazing! Thanks for the information Chris. :)

[TheSimArchitect]

Why can't we just use a basic native font? There's Arial, Courier, Times New Roman and a couple of others that don't require any custom font. Font detail is pretty unessential and we should just drop them except for very specific usage scenarios.

I also dropped analytics entirely because version 4.0 is awful to use. From now on I will rely on Cloudflare's basic analytics and Google Search Console.

I don't think we need specialized fonts 99% of the time. Sorry.

[mindinetorg]

Changing to svg and webp on all images would help a little, but biggest problem is all third party stuff in there and I don't have any solusion for that if you need to have ad's and tracking, I have django site with A rank there but I don't use any js at all, It's kind of amazing what you can do nowdays with just a css.

[praetorxyn]

I do love Roboto as a font. That's what I use in my reading app to read books.

[digitalsparky]

You're welcome mate :). GTMetrix is awesome, I use it all the time ;). (obviously).

[georgehelyar]

At my work we recently had a *very* large customer raise the GDPR issue with Google hosted fonts.

[theLowestPointInMyLife]

there is a good tool called font-forge, you can load the font and remove all the characters you dont need, makes a huge difference, especially if you are using a font just for a logo and you only need a couple of characters, but even if its just general use, you can cut the size by maybe 50-60% and leave just standard English alphabet, numbers and punctuation, thats a massive win in page loading speed

[BlueJDev]

Google Fonts and Google analytics are 2 of the biggest bug bears I have when developing websites and making them faster. Lighthouse always complains about Google's own scripts being included on my sites. Definitely have to remember to switch to bunny and see how it goes. Thanks

[katrinabryce]

Are there any benefits of using a separate CDN for hosting things like fonts over hosting them on your own website?
Certainly the best way to ensure GDPR compliance would be to host them yourself.

[geng]

It's simply better to download the font and serve them yourself

[arthurpizza]

Is it faster to pull from Google Font's or Bunny Fonts, or to just host the fonts on your site?

[MagnusVonBach]

would love to see a video on how to create a winPE usb with custom app installs from you some time.

[tuckerhigley]

Hey Chris, have you looked into enabling cloudflare fonts. It automatically rewrites the google api to serve the fonts from their cdn. I personally am I cloudflare fan boy so I keep everything on cloudflare I love there server response time.

[lenseeing]

Just use ublock origins - block remote fonts feature.

[SuperWubbi]

hi chris i'd like to ask you if you have an easy powershell script that can make a full backup of Windows 10 Pro ??

[ahmedthebest]

Hi sir I have a lot of difficulties trying to get started with arch Linux I can use Debian distros fine but I don't know what is that you or what is that Pac-Man between it and yeah what all of that can you make a video for beginner how to just getting started and to clear all of this mess understanding thanking advanced

[SAKilleR]

Hey Chris I really love your videos
and I wanted to ask you what do you think of ungoogled chromium?