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Google Webfont Optimizer
Makes your website faster by combining all Google Fonts in a single request. Your websites gets a higher PageSpeed score which is good for SEO.
The facts
- Rating
- 3.7★ from 15
- Active installs
- 700+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 28 Nov 2017
- Added
- Nov 2014
- Requires WP
- 3.0.1
- Tested up to
- WP 4.2.39
- Downloads
- 38,631
Our analysis
AI-assistedGoogle Webfont Optimizer is a WordPress plugin designed to improve website performance by optimising Google Fonts requests. It consolidates multiple font requests into a single request, which can enhance loading speed and potentially improve your Google PageSpeed score.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to streamline font loading on their websites, particularly those using multiple Google Fonts. It is easy to install and requires no additional configuration after activation.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users who utilise Google Fonts and want to enhance their site's performance.
What it does well
- ✓Optimises Google Fonts requests for faster loading
- ✓Improves Google PageSpeed score
- ✓Easy to install and activate
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in November 2017
- •Tested only up to WordPress version 4.2.39
- •Limited information on compatibility with other plugins
Verdict
Google Webfont Optimizer offers a straightforward solution for optimising font requests, but its age and limited updates may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
sigurdurg's own description of Google Webfont Optimizer, lightly tidied.
Most modern websites and website themes use Google Fonts to make their website typeface nice to look at and read.
Some plugins even include Google Fonts to make their plugin fancy.
Unfortunately, all this adds up to a lot of different Google Fonts being requested for each webpage, making the website slower with a lower Google PageSpeed score.
Ultimately, it lowers your visitor’s experience and you could drop down in the search results.
Google already solved this problem on their servers by allowing you to ask for multiple fonts in a single request, but that doesn’t fix the problem on YOUR website.
Your website asks for all these different fonts in different requests because there hasn’t been a way to automatically find all these font requests and optimize them.
.. until now.
Finally there’s a way to do this automagically, and that’s where Google WebFont Optimizer helps your site.
Google WebFont Optimizer finds every Google Fonts request, bulks them all together so your website only asks Google once for the fonts, instead of multiple times.
This makes:
- Your Website faster
- Your visitors happier
- Your Google PageSpeed score increase
You only have to install and activate the plugin, and the plugin takes care of everything else.
This plugin was created to make our client’s websites faster to load with a higher Google PageSpeed score, and now it’s yours – free!
If you want to discover more about how you can make your WordPress website faster, go to the Quick Falcon website.
The plugin works best with W3 Total Cache
You can find the source code on GitHub – https://github.com/sigginet/google-webfont-optimizer
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purpose
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