Fonts being served without cache-control headers

mrjeeves

At the moment, all fonts from static.giffgaff.com are being served without cache-control headers, meaning browsers don’t cache the font files.

Maybe getting a header slapped on there would do some good, especially for page load speeds on data.

Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000, stale-while-revalidate=86400
ETag: idk-put-something-here-unique-to-the-current-version

The current CDN does add the Last-Modified header and the ETag header, but not the cache-control header, making the other two essentially useless.

With the cache-control header added, the giffgaff fonts would load as fast as the FontAwesome (fa-…) fonts (less than ⅒ the time!).

Scratch that everything is missing cache headers: fonts, design system doodles and icons, etc.

upper84

This is strange didn’t know

janed48152

It doesn’t bother me, honestly. The forum works just fine and the fonts are excellent 😃 I mean caches aren’t necessarily vital to a website in order to work, I don’t get your point, sorry. Instead, they make the website works slower so I always have to clear them. For example, I do the with my website and people are very pleased with this fact. The fonts are beautiful and that’s enough, haha. So again, I don’t understand what you’re trying to explain here. The website is helpful and beautifully designed.

mrjeeves

janed48152 Instead, they make the website works slower so I always have to clear them.

That means that you aren’t caching correctly.

Caching should be done with ETags or using version query strings as part of the URL.

Flarum uses the 2nd of the two, and you can see this from the URL of the forum assets: https://community.giffgaff.com/assets/forum.css?v=7446cb38

Effective caching reduces the amount of bandwidth used, as well as the amount of load on your servers. With a community as large as giffgaff’s this can actually save a lot of money as there is fewer network egress costs.

Either way, giffgaff has switched to using Google Fonts, so this isn’t an issue anymore.