Wordpress LScache Plugin: Enabling Plugin increases font requests
Last Updated on: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:02 Hello, I have lightspeed plugin and notice 30 extra font requests when the plugin is enabled. In the plugin, I have google fonts loading Async and CSS loading Async enabled. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I cant imagine that cache plugin loads extra fonts and for what? I believe with cache plugin you really can see what is wrong with your theme. Nobody in this universe needs 30 plus x fonts?! You better should check your theme! It seems instead of making one request for a font, it makes 20+ requests. Somehow Google fonts Async may not be working as intended. I have tested on 2 sites. disabling the plugin brings down the font requests to normal. How can I help trouble shoot this? Each font is a request to a single ressource. This cant be combined to 1 request for all fonts, but the way how to get these fonts can be different. To get fonts used the requests to one or more fonts must be defined within CSS, so if a CSS source is loaded the fonts will automatically loaded. This is the standard method, but fonts can also be loaded async. Async loading is like defer and prevents blocking page rendering. The page will faster be painted with async, but fonts still must be loaded, so there is nothing negative if you see loading for each request to a font. This is the trick of async loading, understand? Nevertheless, nobody needs 30 plus X fonts! Reduce them! did you enable load google font async ? Yes, async is enabled. For the record, the page has only 2 fonts and disabling this plugin brings the requests down to 2. Somehow when it is enabled the requests go to 20 or more. Is there a log that I can submit to illustrate what we are observing? try disable load gg font async , purge all and check again Sure enough. I disabled gg font async, purged all, now the fonts came down to 3 with a slight speed bump in page load time. Is this a possible bug? Any way to figure out how to optimize fonts? Any way to figure out how to optimize fonts? Sorry to say that again, but the only way to optimize fonts is to reduce the number of fonts. Fonts are already compressed by design. You can defer loading fonts, but this will cause content shifting and this no good for Pagespeed. The best method to optimize images is to host them on your own host, because every external request to load them from other location will block rendering, so again, reduce the number to max 3 and you do the best you could.
LiteCache Rush: Speed comes from using less, not from doing it faster
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