Failed to load http:// .../fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.5.0

Hi there,

Could be for a couple reasons. Any chance you can link me to the site?

hi - you mean to give you access to the back-end? if so, no problem. I'm just starting a blog... where to send credentials?

Just the front end should do :)

thanks. it's http://www.tuyarah.club .. it's sitting in azure. I'm a novice to everything IT and I know I can not get things fixed myself even after you explain.

I saw a couple of pages using your theme and some of them are lightening fast. HOw are they doing this? Can you help me achieve same results with my site?

I got woocommerce, gravity, sendgrid, addthis plugins installed. I can give you access to the back end if it helps...

sorry... there's a typo.. the site is http://www.tuyarah.com

Hmm, so it looks like the file doesn't exist on your server, even though it exists in the theme: https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/generatepress/1.3.27/fonts/

You can try re-installing GP to see if they were deleted somehow?

re-installed the theme. the error persists.

It's interesting, because Font Awesome is still being displayed on your site, so the "error" isn't actually doing anything.

If you can, access your site via FTP or File Manager and navigate to /wp-content/themes/generatepress/fonts - do you see the files that the errors are talking about?

the files are there. but chrome developer tools show "failed" message. weird. I just thought this could be the reason for slow initial load time... what could be the reason for the initial slow load times?

Very strange, if the file is there I don't know why Chrome would be saying that.

You can try using a tool like this: http://tools.pingdom.com

Or use this plugin to check for slow queries: https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/

Hi Tom, I just noticed this 'error' as well. Pingdom says fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.5.0 is missing but I've checked themes/generatepress/fonts/ on the webserver and it's there along with the other fontawesome files.

This doesn't impact my site's speed, it's just a bit of a mystery. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

Cheers,
Dan

That is a mystery.

Just tested it on this site and the demo site with no issues at all.

I'll research this a little more.

I solved the problem by adding this line in htacess:
AddType application/font-woff woff woff2

Thanks for sharing the solution! :)