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brianjacksonon Disqus Ads Are No Longer Free to Disable

This affects everyone, not just WordPress users unfortunately.

brianjacksonon The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

Ya I would have to agree with you tracker. Ever 3rd party dependency is introducing another DNS lookup. The whole point behind using a CDN effectively, besides lowering latency, is to reduce your DNS lookups to a bare minimum. For example, I use https://www.keycdn. They support HTTP/2 and HPACK compression along with Huffman encoding which reduce the size of your headers.

The benefits of hosting say Google Fonts, Font Awesome, jQuery, etc. all with KeyCDN is that I can take better advantage of parallelism if I have one single HTTP/2 connection. Not to mention I have full control over my assets to implement caching (cache-control), expire headers, etags, easier purging, and the ability to host my own scripts.

brianjacksonon Font Awesome CDN – Open Source, Low Latency, HTTP/2

One would be that MaxCDN doesn't have HTTP/2 support yet.