Comments on: Gzip your @font-face files

By: DoMyself » Blog Archive » Google Buzz产品研究之CSS

DoMyself » Blog Archive » Google Buzz产品研究之CSS — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:26:06 +0000

[...] 为了减少访问数据下载量，我对blog启用了gzip压缩，包括javascript，css甚至@font-face里用到的字体也可以压缩（via Gzip your @font-face files）。启用gzip的压缩结果是客观的，一个Graublau Web.otf字体从41.464k压缩到了31.528k，压缩率为76.04%。然而用上data URI scheme，即使对CSS开启gzip压缩，由于经过base64转译后字符串本身大大增加了CSS文件的体积，压缩效果大大折扣。 [...]

By: Milan Stanojevic

Milan Stanojevic — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:40:00 +0000

I tried using your solution for my school project, and when I use it on my local computer, font-face doesn’t load the gz archive, instead it uses the uncompressed font file that is placed in my root directory, and when I remove that file from the root, font-face property doesn’t work anymore, so is there any possible workaround?

By: @font-face 와 성능 | Clearboth

@font-face 와 성능 | Clearboth — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:22:57 +0000

[...] Stoyan Stefanov: Gzip your @font-face files – http://www.phpied.com/gzip-your-font-face-files/ [...]

By: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer

Kevin Brubeck Unhammer — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:45:40 +0000

dan, this page has a possible .htaccess file:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Htaccess_tricks#Faster_Page_Load_Times_.2F_Bandwidth_Saver
just change the include file line to something like

mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl|jpg|png|gif|eot|otf|svg|ttf)$

By: Performance Calendar » Blog Archive » Reducing the payload: compression, minification, 204s

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:46:26 +0000

[...] should also gzip @font-files like EOT, TTF, OTF, with the exception of WOFF. Average about 40% to be won there with font [...]

By: dan

dan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:25:26 +0000

hi there im a bit of a newb to this and i just cant seem to get my head round this i dont know wether you name the actual fonts gzipper or the gziped files either way i cant seem to get it to work for me and i would like to have it working as it seems a very good solution

By: Ameer

Ameer — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:17:59 +0000

I know this post is old. Just wanted to let you know that the fonts you used in the fonts test page; http://www.phpied.com/files/fonts/fonts.html return an MIME type of text/plain.

By: syzen

syzen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:47:27 +0000

hi!
can anyone tell me how should i configure in my .htaccess file to render my pre-gzipped font file? or can i pre-gzip my font file?
i am newbies on web coding and sorry if i’m asking a stupid question

By: dana

dana — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:20:12 +0000

EWP! WEFT! W3C! WURT!

By: Shadow

Shadow — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:13:32 +0000

Came up with a solution:

Use Apache’s ‘AddType’ declaration to add a custom mime type and then use that mime type in the ‘AddOutputFilterByType’ declaration.

For example, for opentype fonts:

Addtype font/otf .otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css font/otf

http://www.doktortr.net/