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How much data traffic could google save if it would just bundle all fonts with chrome?

• thrownaway954 7y ago
  how much space would packing all those fonts take up?
  • LukeBMM 7y ago
    With some extra metadata, about 428MB. https://github.com/google/fonts https://github.com/google/fonts Since the browser hands font rendering off to the operating system, however, the most pertinent browser-specific adjustment would be updating the (configurable) defaults (Serif, Sans-serif, etc...) for each supported platform - Georgia instead of Times for a default, for example.
    • moftz 7y ago
      You bundle the top 10 most popular fonts and save about half the traffic: counter is ticking about 20M per minute or 201B per week, top 10 fonts were used 136B times this week, Chrome is about 3/4 of users. Bundling would save (136/201)*(3/4) = about 1/2. However, Google would lose about half of their tracking events so I'm sure they've already thought of this and figured the data is worth more than the traffic expenses.
      • thrownaway954 7y ago
        that to me is the real reason behind this service. it might not make money, but the statistics and insight they get are worth way more than money.
• basilgohar 7y ago
  Yeah, let's just install the Internet Archive on everyone's computer and be done with it. </snark>