Noted August 18, 2016

Yesterday I mentioned the time saved by system fonts in WP would increase productivity, here’s the data via WebPageTest. I used the Dallas instance to run the tests, so results will vary outside of North America.

Comparison of system fonts vs open-sans over DSL

Sources: DSL System fonts, DSL Open Sans

Comparison of system fonts vs open-sans over 3G

Sources: 3G system fonts, 3G open sans

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3 comments

Brian Krogsgard says:

August 18, 2016 at 10:42 am

@pwcc Tens of readers will thank you :)

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Peter Wilson says:

August 20, 2016 at 8:35 am

@jeffr0 fixed. PHP-FPM started crashing yesterday, working out why is my homework for this weekend.

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Penerjemah Ridha says:

August 20, 2016 at 3:02 pm

Thank you for this. The native font load twice faster than open-sans, great.

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