Google Font and Mobile Page Speed

Hi there,

First thing to check is Font Variants in the Customizer Typography settings:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/google-font-variants/

Are their any Font Weights you're not using on your site ? If so you can remove them from the list.

Thanks David. There were a number of variants of Oswald (my headings font) that I wasn't using, so I removed them, but I didn't see any Pagespeed change from that alone.

My body font is Georgia, and I really only need the normal and bold font weights, though I see there are a number of font weights in the drop down menu. Not sure if font weight is the same thing as variants, but I don't see any way to remove them like I did the header font variants.

Georgia is a system font so that can be ignored as there are no requests being made for that.
Other options are to preload the font - but you're simply moving the load time upstream, alternative is to load the fonts locally - options are:

1. Manually following this doc:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-local-fonts/

2. Use the OMGF plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/host-webfonts-local/

I've tried using the OMGF plugin in the past, but saw no change to site speed when I left the settings on Automatic. The Manual settings were a little over my head. Do you have any recommendations for what to set the Manual settings to?

I have found with the most recent update of OMGF the automatic version has worked really well - it sometimes takes a bit of nudge - and make sure you run it without any Caching plugins enabled.

Hi Dave,

I'm actually the developer of OMGF and I'm also a happy user/customer of GeneratePress.

So, if you need any help with properly setting up OMGF, feel free to reach out to me!

I'll be notified of replies via email :-)

Thanks,

Daan