The performance hit is even more prominent when you load multiple font families with multiple font weights. Not only do they add to the page weight, but websites have to make additional HTTP requests to fetch them. With over 999 free and unique font families to choose from, users have collectively viewed Google Fonts over 40 trillion times (July 2020).Įxternally hosted fonts like Google Fonts are also one of the heaviest third-party resources to load. They make it easy for websites to unify and present their content better. Google Fonts are one of the most widely used third-party resources in many websites.