Or you could just load the font from your own site and avoid a pass through Google.
Here's a site of mine which loads some fonts.[1] See any loading delays?
It's junk-free. No trackers, no ads, no "Google Tag Manager".
Here's a site of mine which loads some fonts.[1] See any loading delays?
It's junk-free. No trackers, no ads, no "Google Tag Manager".
> It’s important to note that self-hosting the fonts might also help fix render-blocking issues
Interestingly, your fonts loaded quickly, but I got wildly varying results when looking at your site - for example it took me six seconds to download your 8kb background jpg on one load.
But you don't have to use it, and yes for some reason that seems to be a lost art.
Furthermore, Google Font subsets their fonts so that if you only use English, the other parts of the font that contain Greek, etc. won't load (via unicode-range CSS)