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by desdiv
4247 days ago
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>It can’t be cheap to serve fonts on this kind of scale. To date there have been over 2.6 trillion pageviews using Google Fonts. Sure, the fonts are oftentimes cached in the user’s browser but that is still a lot of requests and a lot of data being transferred. A trillion is a big number, even for a company like Google. I randomly picked 10 font families and downloaded them, and the files were 11.8MB in total after unzipping. At approximately 1.2MB per pageview, 2.6 trillion pageviews is only around 3 exabytes. That's only $100k in bandwidth costs at your average CDN. I'm sure Google's infrastructure costs are even lower than that. |
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