Fun tidbit: The opposite is true now.
In order to prevent cross-domain tracking by observing cache hits, Browsers will not use a cached Google font across multiple domains. You gain nothing from using Google Fonts.
But, because it's an extra host, the browser will need to do the whole DNS/TCP/TLS dance to fetch the file, small as it may be, so you're getting additional latency compared to just downloading the file from the server it's already connected to.
Henryk Plötz
npub106…acwt5
2026-03-03 13:29:36 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…rlug
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