FONT AWESOME CDN STACK
The Font Awesome CDN assets are delivered from top data centers locations around the globe to speed up delivery, provide lower latency and faster speed, and provide seemless open source integrations.
With 25+ data centres worldwide running SSD-optimized NGINX servers, Font Awesome assets are delivered to visitors faster. CORS and GZIP compression are both enabled by default ensuring Font Awesome is accessible from a separate domain and file size is optimized.
The latest version of Font Awesome is always up to date and available via the Font Awesome CDN. Transferred through low latency POPs that are HTTP/2 (SSL) supported ensures that assets are distributed as efficiently as possible.
HOW TO
ADD FONT AWESOME CDN IN WORDPRESS
Easily add font awesome to any self-hosted WordPress site.
- In your WordPress dashboard’s appearance editor place the following code into the <head> section of your site’s header.php file.
<link href="https://opensource.keycdn.com/fontawesome/4.6.3/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
Make sure to backup your files before editing your WordPress theme and clear server cache. - Place icons anywhere with the <i> tag. Grab examples from Font Awesome. You can also use the icons in your WordPress menus by inlining the code within the navigation label field.
AVOID RENDER-BLOCKING CSS
CSS by default is render-blocking (which includes your font awesome icons) when placed aboved-the-fold. Render-blocking refers to it causing a delay in the rendering of your page.
To avoid render-blocking CSS, move your code right before your </body> section of your site’s HTML.
<link href="https://opensource.keycdn.com/fontawesome/4.6.3/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
Remember it is usually always better to consolidate your assets to one CDN provider so that you can reduce DNS lookups and take advantage of parallelism with a single HTTP/2 connection.
Font Awesome CDN is sponsored by KeyCDN
https://fontawesomecdn.com