What’s the use of newspaper.woff?15 I noticed it adds extra 300ms load time on my site. I am not using any icons or using newspaper menu on my site. So can I disable this from loading on site?
Thanks
That is the icon font (like a trimmed version of FontAwesome); for arrows (up/down, side, caret, buttons, social media, etc.).
Disable and see if it impacts anything; if so, turn it back on.
Where do I disable it from?
You’ll have to hack the functions file. You will have to wait for Tagdiv to reply.
Hello,
Unfortunately there is o option to remove the loading of the font so it has to be removed from the theme code. You can remove the font loading from here: https://www.screencast.com/t/VfVP403qaV but this will result in no more theme icons including social networks, menu arrows, etc. https://www.screencast.com/t/cJmVPogP Basically all of the font graphics will be gone.
Removing the newspaper font is not recommended.
I’m interested in this “issue” as well. Maybe it should help to remove ?15 only ? Just an idea.
newspaper.woff is the font used for all the ‘icon’ elements on the site and themes, for up arrows, buttons, social media sharing and site account icons. It’s very very unusual to not need any of that on any modern “news site” — which is the purpose of the theme.
the ?15 (‘versioning’) is used for caching / caching plugins and hurts nothing to have that.
You could likely hack the functions the same way as described to remove that ?15 element, but that is completely different topic than removing the font loading entirely.
We use a function in our sites here to remove all “versioning” from the meta data.
