Title: Google Fonts Options? Last modified: December 22, 2019 --- # Google Fonts Options? * Resolved [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/) * (@multimastery) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/) * Hi, so far seems like a very helpful plugin, but I’m confused on the best option to load Google fonts. * These are the choices I see under the ‘Extras’ tab: * – Leave as is – Remove Google Fonts – Combine and link in head (fonts load fast but are render-blocking) – Combine and preload in head (fonts load late, but are not render-blocking) – Combine and load fonts asynchronously with webfont. js * Please advise on the best option to use. And what exactly is the “leave as is” option doing? Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12261759) * I removed them myself, but if you’re into fonts then “Combine and preload in head (fonts load late, but are not render-blocking)” is the best option in my opinion. * hope this helps, frank * Thread Starter [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/) * (@multimastery) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12263182) * Well what happens when you remove them? I guess that’s the deciding question. * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12263649) * a browser-native font is used instead, most often also specified as fallback in the theme’s CSS. * Thread Starter [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/) * (@multimastery) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12266543) * Ok well I’m wondering how these “browswer-native” fonts look? Kinda hard to make a descision whether to use them or not if I don’t even know how they’ll make my site/page look. * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12266662) * tick the option and check out how it looks? 🙂 * Thread Starter [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/) * (@multimastery) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12268356) * Okay I checked ‘remove Google fonts’ and although it was ok I just really didn’t like the way it looked on my site. * So I set it to the other option that you’ve suggested: “Combine and preload in head (fonts load late, but are not render-blocking)”, but now I’m wondering how to avoid the whole FOIT issue that’s reported in Google Pagespeed Insights (it also reports that issue even when I used the setting “Leave as is” so I’m kinda confused on this. [https://web.dev/font-display/?utm_source=lighthouse&utm_medium=unknown](https://web.dev/font-display/?utm_source=lighthouse&utm_medium=unknown) - This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/). * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12268684) * AO 2.6 (out later today) adds `display:swap` which should help. * Thread Starter [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/) * (@multimastery) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12278070) * Well I’m still getting reports under “Ensure text remains visible during webfont load” so unfortunately doesn’t seem like that change helped. * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12278538) * Can you click on that recommendation to see which fonts are mentioned there? * Thread Starter [multimastery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimastery/) * (@multimastery) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12280927) * Ensure text remains visible during webfont load Leverage the font-display CSS feature to ensure text is user-visible while webfonts are loading. Learn more. URL Potential Savings …fonts/slider.woff?8p86w5(bulkcomments.net) 260 ms …fonts/ feature-background.woff(bulkcomments.net) 50 ms …font/elegantline.woff?map0iz( bulkcomments.net) 50 ms …fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0(bulkcomments. net) 260 ms …v17/mem8YaGs1….woff2(fonts.gstatic.com) 20 ms * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12280975) * well, of those five only the last one is a google font one, and based on your site’s HTML it’s not from the autoptimize optimized google fonts call either but from fonts called from javascript in your pricing table. * so for the non-google font files you’ll have to ask the plugin (or theem) developers for display:swap support, for the opensans google font ones supsystic might be able to help. * hope this clarifies, frank Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Google Fonts Options?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/autoptimize/assets/icon-256X256.png?rev=2211608) * [Autoptimize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/) ## Tags * [google fonts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/google-fonts/) * 11 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-options/#post-12280975) * Status: resolved