Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts

Re:Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s F... by monochromatic on Friday December 09, 2016 @02:42PM (#13141216)

Indeed.

> If each day 73 million websites serve the Font Awesome WOFF to an average of a thousand visitors who don’t have these fonts in the browser’s cache...

This assumption that they don't have the fonts cached is only sensible if each user is unique. But that means that we have 73 BILLION unique users.

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Re:Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s F... by sloanesturz on Friday December 09, 2016 @07:52PM (#13143261)

Not necessarily: your browser caches a different version of font-awesome for each website you visit. There's no way for it to tell that site1.com/static/font-awesome is the same as site1.com/resources/font-awesome until it makes the HTTP request and downloads it.

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Re:Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s F... by stephen_g on Friday December 09, 2016 @11:22PM (#13144003)

Many sites use the provided MaxCDN URL though, which would be cached between sites.

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