I have downloaded the fonts I would like to use exclusively on our site. These fonts combined equal about 36kb of space. Even after testing on individual pages without any of the original Montserrat fonts Webflow is still downloading the original font family as well as calling to ajax.googleapis slowing down the web page even more.
Ideally, the solution is to I would like to use the custom downloaded font and prevent Webflow from downloading the original web font from the google web font library. But unfortunately, even after cleaning all of the styles and removing the original font the problem still exists.
Any ideas? Is there a way to replace EVERY font on the website without having to create an entirely new project? This font issue is slowing our site down immensely, especially on mobile.
Well to be honest looking at the page in mobile there wasn’t even a slightest slowdown. Just my experience though of course. The problem of font families being loaded even when unused is very frequently mentioned on the forums, you can search for relevant topics. I don’t think the issue was ever resolved.
I made a forum account just for this Google font issue - it’s been almost a year and a half since the topic was introduced and it’s not fixed
I won’t upload all my stats about my page load times - other people have already showed such screenshots in the past on other threads. “Fonts” alone takes up over 50% of content data and requests for my site, which is ludicrous!
It largely contributes to a dismal Mobile score on Pagespeed Insights of only 40%. And over 70% of my website traffic is mobile - so how much is this issue affecting my bounce rate?
I understand that Webflow wasn’t made to conform to Google’s SEO rules - but this topic has been brought up enough that it’s obviously an issue. If everyone who used Webflow ran in depth speed tests at Pingdom and realized how much this issue is slowing down their site - then it would be a much bigger issue.
@PixelGeek Who’s the best contact for this issue at Webflow? Can we get a temporary fix or gameplan set forth?
I love Webflow and hope this doesn’t fall on deaf ears.
Hi @Underdog, thanks for your post. This is indeed an open issue still and one that has been reported.
I have reached out to our team to see what the expectations should be for a fix for this and I am checking if this is due to the way the fonts are loaded or if there is some limiting factor from google that forces all of the variants to load.
The moment I have further info, I will contact you immediately. Also, this issue mainly impacts the Montserrat font, that is a large font, so the extra variants have a real impact on the site performance. For other smaller fonts the load may not be as much and as less of an impact, just an observation, the real resolution is to of course be able to only load the variants used.
When I have an update, I will post here, you can be assured though, this is an active and open issue, but I cannot give an exact timeline for the resolution.
