Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nicbou 2209 days ago
That's also my experience.

My self-hosted, cached, server-pushed fonts keep the total load time well under 500 milliseconds. I load 2 fonts in a total of 6 variants.

The 100kb responsive header is a much bigger bottleneck.

You can achieve much bigger savings with proper caching, gzipping, a fast server and a lightweight page than with system fonts.