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Inline Google Fonts CSS

CSS

Inlines the small font-loading CSS that the Google Fonts API serves.

Filter inline_google_font_css · Filter docs · Fetches font CSS from the Google Fonts API to demonstrate.

A mod_pagespeed 1.1 filter. ModPageSpeed 2.0 applies it as part of one always-on pipeline, not as a separate switch.

Both frames render identically — that's the goal. The win is in the bytes and requests below, not the look. They're served live by mod_pagespeed 1.1 on demo-httpd-1.1.modpagespeed.com; the optimized frame applies only this filter. Right after a cache purge it may briefly match the original while the worker rewrites it — reload to see the result.

Measured impact

HTTP requests

2 1
−1

Total bytes

569 B 492 B
−14%

What changed in the source

The page's HTML, before and after this filter. Red lines are removed, green lines are added.


                
                  
<html>
<head>
<title>inline_google_font_css example</title>
- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto">
+ <style>@font-face {
+ font-family: 'Roboto';
+ font-style: normal;
+ font-weight: 400;
+ font-stretch: normal;
+ src: url(http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v51/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbVmUiA8.ttf) format('truetype');
+ }
+ </style>
<style>
body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;