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Simon Wicki
Personal blog · wicki.io/postswebprogramming
Simon Wicki writes Wicki.io, a personal blog at wicki.io about web and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Self-host your fonts for better performance”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Simon Wicki's posts on web performance, such as why loading JavaScript and fonts from external domains no longer speeds up caching and can make pages slower.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Frontend Engineer from Berlin working with Ionic, VueJS, Angular, Capacitor, Cordova
Most-linked posts?
- Self-host your fonts for better performance3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-04
What Hacker News says?
I’m sure it’s not the only factor, but loading JavaScript from external domains (like from Google) changed from being good for caching – i.e. faster web pages – to being meaningless and usually slower: • https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-ca... • https://wicki.io/posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/
Comment linking /posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/
on “Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code”Submitted Self-host your fonts for better performance as a story · 610 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ode to AngularJS's Retirement as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts: Cache Performance (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion