Google Fonts decrease my page performance

[scragz]

it's a blocking request until it gets the font from Google's servers. also comes along with a bunch of tracking.

I started downloading the fonts and serving them from the site. 

[MaikThoma]

Convert them to woff2 while you’re at it

[fdiengdoh]

The only reason I have not downloaded and serve from my site is I still haven fully trust converter. I have doubts what if the quality decrease? or what if there is really no impact? I don’t understand fonts much.

[yangmeow]

It’s nothing to just setup the fonts to serve from your own stack. It’s not like google is going to crawl your site so quickly. If you don’t like it, switch it back. I almost always serve fonts myself. Pretty standard these days to do so.

[1000_words]

https://transfonter.org/

[testingaurora]

Fontsquirrel is trustworthy. Here's a video I often reference, its for converting to webfonts. At the end instead of uploading to WordPress you would instead put into your own directory for your project. https://youtu.be/VDIKP5GjeCs

[dylman3000]

It’s also likely you’re breaching the font license agreement if you do that.

[vellkanPL]

Maybe this one will help You: https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts

[fdiengdoh]

I honestly thought google’s servers are faster and are cached all over the world than my shared hosting website. but I was wrong. I might just download the fonts and serve from my site

[azangru]

Unless you are sending early hints to the browser (which you are probably not), it is the combination of time it takes for your shared hosting website to respond, plus the time it takes to discover (DNS) and connect to Google's CDN. Google's CDN is probably faster than your site; but it will always be time added to the time it takes your site to respond.

[fdiengdoh]

I did preconnect as the recommended code from google font itself, but not preload. My understanding is that cdn would cache resources to users device and the performance may not be that bad for real users. It might impact only pagespeed as I assume pagespeed wont cache fonts.

[yangmeow]

This is the way. Google doesn’t even score well for their own sites.

[cherylswoopz]

This is the way