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#25959 Improve Expire also for Font files

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Latest post by user87102 on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:10 CDT

Wednesday, 24 August 2016 04:29 CDT

user87102
 Google have a great tool to check optimization ( https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ ), this tool make a warning about expiration time of fonts (i.e. .woff files), now these type of files inherit default expire time (1 hour).

The solution is to add this code in .htaccess when expire setting is enabled:

AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
AddType application/x-font-ttf .ttf
AddType application/x-font-opentype .otf
AddType application/x-font-woff .woff
AddType image/svg+xml .svg
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "now plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "now plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-opentype "now plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "now plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "now plus 1 week"

This for me works perfectly, but I'm not a expert about htacces, so I don't know if this can cause some compatibility issues.

My request is to add this code is next release (of course if this not cause problems)

Regards
Fiorino

Wednesday, 24 August 2016 07:59 CDT

nicholas
Good point! Will do. Just a few notes on implementation and best practices:

1. Only the ExpiresByType lines will be added in the next release. The AddType lines are not necessary on up to date servers (Apache already includes these in its mime.types file). Moreover, these lines can cause problems on unnecessarily locked down servers – you'd be surprised at the crazy things misguided server admins do...

2. It is strongly recommended not to host the fonts your own server. It slows down the page load speed and creates ugly artefacts when your site is loaded over slow or high latency connections (if you are ever throttled to 2G data by your carrier you'll know what I mean). The best approach is to use Google Fonts. Everybody is using them so it's very likely they are already loaded in the cache of your visitor's browser.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:10 CDT

user87102
Hi Nicholas,
thanks for understanding and quick reply.

small notes about your explanation:
1. Great, I have copied the code from stackoverflow.com :D
2. Yes you have right, but many components/templates uses own local version of fonts for vector icons.

great support. Regards
Fiorino

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