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Same here. I never really used third party domain software. I used Google Fonts for a while, but I find it pathetic to have some font files and some CSS loaded
by WA 11y ago
Same here. I never really used third party domain software. I used Google Fonts for a while, but I find it pathetic to have some font files and some CSS loaded from a different server than mine. Google Fonts (and every CDN) can be a lot slower than my own server. Sometimes, the site hangs while "waiting for google.com". Silly.
Also, Google Fonts might be Google Analytics in disguise. Who knows.
I use Piwik for tracking, but the self-hosted version. I don't even use newsletter services. I bought a cheap newsletter plugin for Wordpress which I use as an autoresponder email course.
But delivery is all that matters they say. And yet, all Mailchimp and Aweber and whatnot goes 100% to my spam folder automatically. I believe the delivery argument is a myth.
The best part: Decision making is much easier. "So, your product can't be installed on my own server? Bad luck, I won't become your customer."
- nacs 11y ago> I used Google Fonts for a while, but I find it pathetic to have some font files and some CSS loaded from a different server than mine You can have the fonts and not have any requests leave your site by using something like this[1]. It downloads the Google font data so you can serve the font files and CSS from your own site. https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper
- Wilya 11y agoIn theory, the point of Google Fonts is that it does user-agent sniffing to adapt the font and css to the user's browser, to get the best rendering. You would lose that advantage by hosting the fonts yourself.
- WA 11y agoIn practice, I'd set up the CSS such that modern browsers render it beautifully and give a crap about older browsers. Or make a CSS for older browsers without that font.
- WA 11y agoThat's great, thank you :)