
#64 James & Per are web-safe
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How to Optimize Your Web Page for Faster Downloads
Chrome tries to download the font, and the time out for the font obviously is substantial. It's not like, if we can't get it in two seconds, we're giving it up. In a mobile environment, it will keep on trying for probably... I don't... Obviously, tens of seconds before it gives up on the font - and the browser falls back. So if you have any font that's downloaded from somewhere, it is a potential risk that doesn't appear straight away. And also just increasing loading times. He has the example of it potentially increasing loading times by 10%, having a large number of special fonts on your web page. There we're just... Yeah.
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