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Re:Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s F... by wyldfire on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:50AM (#13138706)
The distribution of icons used is probably not uniform, so it's not like a worst case scenario of all misses all the time. Just the less popular ones.
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Re:Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s F... by icebraining on Friday December 09, 2016 @09:21AM (#13138859)
Even if you subset is the same as mine, if each of us is doing the subsetting ourselves, we won't share the same URL, hence the browser will still fetch it twice.

On the other hand, it seems that FA themselves are building a CDN with subsetting, so they could in fact provide those shared subsets. Unfortunately (but understandably) it's paid, so most of us can't use it.

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