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Hey there,
Yesterday I received a mail that in Germany multiple website provider had to pay a penalty fee when google has to reload a font. There is a website where you can check whether your website is affected: https://sicher3.de/google-fonts-checker/ and in my case it’s red stating:Found reloading fonts!
Unfortunately, we found fonts on your website that are downloaded from Google. We recommend integrating the fonts in such a way that they are delivered directly from your website (local storage).Details:
Number of connections: 3
List of views:Style sheet: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=yantramanav%7cyanone+coffee grounds&subset
Fonts:
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/yantramanav/v11/flu8rqu5zy00qepywjywn5fzxezzch40.woff2
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/yanone Kaffeesatz/v24/3y9i6aknfjlm_3lmkjimgmuuybs04auxnxt9gw2lifto9twzd2gkkhd0vtti.woff2I tried to change it to another font but the error was the same, as all of the provided fonts are downloaded from Google.
Can you help me out here? Any way to use a font to avoid a potential issue where I’ve to pay a penalty?Thanks in advance and best regards,
IsabelHi there Isabel,
Thank you so much for reaching out with your Crio Pro WordPress theme questions.
I definitely understand your need to serve google fonts locally in your website. To do so you can use a plugin like OMGF to serve your font’s locally and become compliant with the imposed guidelines.
Once you have the plugin installed and activated all you need to do is visit the OMGF dashboard and click “Start Optimizing”.
I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any other questions for us.
Hi Brandon 🙂
Thanks a lot for your quick response but I guess the plugin only helps when buying the pro version. Right now it only lists the google fonts of my website but there is no option to install them to the server or to replace them by a non-google font. Unfortunately it’s also not possible for my website to select any font that isn’t a google font (only maybe if I start coding something in the CSS/HTML Editor but I’m not really a developer). Any other idea or do I misunderstand maybe the plugin?
Thanks again in advance and all the best,
IsabelHi Isable,
This plugins purpose is to actually take the google fonts used on your website and automatically serve them locally. You shouldn’t need the pro version for this functionality. If you visit the Optimize Google Fonts plugins settings you should see Cache Status option under the task manager.
All you need to do is click the “Start Optimization” link to cache your stylesheets into your database and the site should begin to serve them locally.
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