NOT using Font awesome

[Steve123]

Hi,
To try to reduce the load time for my pages, I’m not using Google fonts, or text icons, or anything like that. Instead, I’ve chosen Helvetica for both body and headings in Typography in the X customiser and I don’t insert anything that I haven’t uploaded to my site directly.
When I run a speed test, however, I get results like this:
wp-content/themes/x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/fa-solid-900.woff2
wp-content/themes/x/framework/fonts/font_awesome/fa-brands-400.woff2
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/lato/v16/S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPGQ.woff2
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:700&subset=latin,latin-ext

1. I did use Lato, but changed all X settings to Helvetica, so why is Lato still showing somewhere and slowing down my pages, please?
2. What is woff2, please?
3. Is it required for X to function properly and if not, how can I get rid of it so it does not slow down my site, please?

Thanks,
Steve

[Steve123]

By the way, I’ve also changed the settings in X Customizer - Header - to Helvetica, so the Lato font should not be called due to anything there either. I can’t find anywhere else to change it so I’ve no idea why it is still on my pages.

[rad]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for reaching out.

You should ignore them, some optimization tools recommend some changes that is not possible, like google fonts that already optimized and, the tools aren’t even checking if it’s external URLs that you can’t touch remote since it’s google hosted. In case I’m wrong and you’re not using any optimization tool, then still, you should let them be

As for font awesome, it’s the graphical icons of your site. They are stored as font files, removing them will remove all the icons from your site.

The Lato font is a default that acts as fall-back font. That means all the text would appear the same while other fonts you configured are still downloading from google. Removing that would cause some flickering effect on texts where appearances consistently changing since each device have different default system fonts. But it shouldn’t have any performance effect.

Thanks!