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The other big technical reason to self host Google fonts is wanting your website to load in China. The Google CDN is blocked there, in case anyone here is unawa
by akanet 9y ago
The other big technical reason to self host Google fonts is wanting your website to load in China. The Google CDN is blocked there, in case anyone here is unaware.
- rahimnathwani 9y agoI live in China, and the CDN for Google Fonts (https://fonts.googleapis.com https://fonts.googleapis.com) works just fine from both my mobile and home internet connections. The site for searching for fonts (fonts.google.com) doesn't appear to work, but that's not relevant to the self-hosting discussion. If you also live in China, please try to load https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rozha+One https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rozha+One (ideally without VPN, and using your ISP's DNS server).
- bjshepard 9y agoWorks for me too.
- akanet 9y agoYMMV of course, but when we used the fonts CDN a very large proportion of Chinese users could not access our website intermittently.
- rahimnathwani 9y agoPast tense. Was that more than 2.5 years ago?