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Impact of Google Fonts on Site Speed – Serif Typeface

Google Fonts is one of the popular sites online that provide open-source fonts. With hundreds of selections to choose from, it is quite easy to be overwhelmed when choosing a font that will be used for your website, design or project.

Although the featured Google fonts are optimized for the web, they still have varying impact on your page load speed. Since 2010, site speed has been a signal in Google’s search ranking algorithms so it will be for the best interest of your site to find a perfect balance between the aesthetic value provided and the site speed impact of the font that you are using.

Currently, there are 122 serified typeface font families in Google Fonts. The following table shows the impact on page load or site speed of Google Fonts with a serif typespace or you may also view the top 12 fastest loading Google Fonts with Serif typeface:

Impact on Site Speed of Google Fonts: Serif Typeface

Font Impact
Adamina 56
Alegreya 15
Alegreya SC 15
Alice 70
Alike 52
Alike Angular 58
Almendra 14
Almendra SC 16
Amethysta 34
Andada 16
Antic Didone 18
Antic Slab 17
Arapey 14
Arbutus Slab 19
Artifika 67
Arvo 26
Average 9
Balthazar 15
Belgrano 17
Bentham 30
Bitter 22
Brawler 54
Bree Serif 11
Buenard 11
Cambo 14
Cantata One 11
Cardo 54
Caudex 45
Cinzel 24
Copse 34
Coustard 38
Crete Round 12
Crimson Text 93
Cutive 21
Cutive Mono 17
Della Respira 27
Domine 26
Donegal One 16
Droid Serif 27
EB Garamond 23
Enriqueta 11
Esteban 11
Fanwood Text 62
Fauna One 8
Fenix 8
Fjord One 25
Gabriela 8
Gentium Basic 50
Gentium Book Basic 52
Gilda Display 9
Glegoo 7
Goudy Bookletter 1911 41
Habibi 10
Headland One 13
Holtwood One SC 19
IM Fell Double Pica 117
IM Fell Double Pica SC 108
IM Fell DW Pica 121
IM Fell DW Pica SC 109
IM Fell English 115
IM Fell English SC 107
Font Impact
IM Fell French Canon 13
IM Fell French Canon SC 76
IM Fell Great Primer 121
IM Fell Great Primer SC 112
Inika 10
Italiana 14
Jacques Francois 36
Josefin Slab 51
Judson 98
Junge 38
Kameron 40
Kotta One 8
Kreon 18
Ledger 9
Libre Baskerville 28
Linden Hill 53
Lora 84
Lusitana 16
Lustria 17
Marcellus 11
Marcellus SC 12
Marko One 20
Mate 15
Mate SC 15
Merriweather 11
Montaga 17
Neuton 14
Noticia Text 19
Noto Serif 29
Old Standard TT 31
Oranienbaum 15
Ovo 23
Petrona 29
Playfair Display 26
Playfair Display SC 19
Podkova 106
Poly 32
Port Lligat Slab 18
Prata 17
Prociono 18
PT Serif 44
PT Serif Caption 49
Quando 25
Quattrocento 27
Radley 22
Roboto Slab 12
Rokkitt 26
Rosarivo 10
Rufina 9
Sanchez 13
Sorts Mill Goudy 23
Stoke 28
Tienne 38
Tinos 35
Trocchi 31
Trykker 11
Ultra 27
Unna 15
Vidaloka 65
Volkhov 53
Vollkorn 31

Are you using a font with Serif typeface from Google Fonts? Will you consider changing it for a font with a lesser impact on your page load speed? Care to share your thoughts on the comments section below?

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