Title: Preconnect Last modified: December 27, 2018 --- # Preconnect * Resolved Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/) * Hi, * I’ve added a preconnect for [https://fonts.googleapis.com](https://fonts.googleapis.com) but this appears in the source code below my fonts ([https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=…](https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=…);) which are right at the top of the page. * So i’m wondering if there’s any point in using preconnect for [https://fonts.googleapis.com](https://fonts.googleapis.com)? * Thanks Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11031048) * > So i’m wondering if there’s any point in using preconnect for [https://fonts.googleapis.com](https://fonts.googleapis.com)? * no, not really 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11031180) * That’s what I thought 🙂 * Is there anyway to get the preconnect appearing before the fonts? * I have tried adding them manually into the header.php right before the but AO seems to add the fonts before my preconnects no matter what i do. * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11031686) * Even if it would appear before the fonts, it would not really matter; as I see it preconnect is only useful for requests that occur later (i.e. deferred requests/ requests triggered by javascript/ requests from within CSS or -maybe- requests at the end of your HTML). * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11033947) * Would the use of preconnect differ from that of dns-prefetch? * I ask because according to this ([https://www.keycdn.com/blog/resource-hints](https://www.keycdn.com/blog/resource-hints)) recommended uses of prefetch include google fonts (see section 2 – dns prefetching). * My understanding was that preconnect is basically a better version of prefetch which is why i was using it for the fonts. * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11033978) * preconnect indeed > dns-prefetch, as preconnect not only does the dns-lookup, but also establishes the tcp/ip and HTTP connection. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11034006) * My point was that in the previous comment you said it’s not useful for google fonts but keycdn says it is? Confused… * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11034011) * When in doubt; test 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous User 14978628 * (@anonymized-14978628) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11034022) * Perhaps you forgot my original message? 🙂 * I am unable to insert the preconnect before the fonts in the page source, even if i try adding it manually as AO always inserts the fonts before the preconnect. * I’m assuming that for preconnect to actually be useful it must be inserted before the fonts which your original reply seemed to suggest was the case. * Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/) * (@optimizingmatters) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preconnect/#post-11034740) * right-o 🙂 * so you could switch to [autoptimize beta (on github)](https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/archive/beta.zip) which has a filter (`autoptimize_filter_extra_gfont_injectpoint`) that allows you to alter the injection-point (which is now `