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Self-Host Google Fonts

Updated over 3 weeks ago

FlyingPress improves performance and privacy by downloading and serving Google Fonts directly from your own domain, instead of relying on Google’s servers.

How it works

  • When enabled, FlyingPress detects fonts loaded from fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com

  • The fonts and their CSS are downloaded during page caching

  • They are then served locally from the cache folder: wp-content/cache/flying-press/

Benefits

  • Eliminates external requests to Google Fonts

  • Speeds up font loading and improves Core Web Vitals

  • Enhances privacy by preventing Google from tracking font usage

  • Increases cacheability and reduces DNS lookups

Notes

  • Works automatically - no need to manually enqueue fonts

  • Applies to all fonts loaded via Google Fonts (inline or via theme/plugin)

  • Font files are re-downloaded if changes are detected during cache regeneration

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