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The Typotheque web font service is slow if you’re not in the US
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Sadly, the otherwise fine Typotheque web font service is hosted on AWS EC2
instances in the us-east datacenter instead of on a proper CDN like CloudFront.
This means it’s really going to slow down page loading for your visitors if
they’re not inside the US.
Here’s a traceroute to wf.typotheque.com from Amsterdam:
thijs@mbp:office$ traceroute wf.typotheque.com
traceroute to typotheque-1610870073.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com (174.129.38.35), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 18.721 ms 23.466 ms 97.882 ms
2 lo1.dr4.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.227) 152.281 ms 119.891 ms 72.046 ms
3 1314.ae3.xr3.3d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.133) 41.304 ms 73.360 ms 76.626 ms
4 0.so-1-2-0.xr1.tc2.xs4all.net (194.109.5.14) 75.464 ms 76.133 ms 72.688 ms
5 xe-1-3-0.ams12.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.74.209) 156.851 ms 80.811 ms 75.563 ms
6 xe-0-0-0.was14.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.184.30) 174.951 ms
xe-2-1-0.was14.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.182.9) 190.432 ms 150.189 ms
7 vadata-gw.ip4.tinet.net (173.241.128.46) 183.050 ms 255.953 ms 237.739 ms
8 72.21.220.27 (72.21.220.27) 186.742 ms
72.21.220.29 (72.21.220.29) 232.587 ms
72.21.220.27 (72.21.220.27) 171.507 ms
9 72.21.222.155 (72.21.222.155) 193.927 ms
72.21.222.145 (72.21.222.145) 179.239 ms
72.21.222.155 (72.21.222.155) 192.478 ms
10 * * *
11 * * *
...
For comparison, here’s a traceroute to a AWS CloudFront host:
traceroute to dodqvhvp911pf.cloudfront.net (216.137.59.10), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 140.186 ms 28.724 ms 89.777 ms
2 lo1.dr4.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.227) 146.894 ms 92.140 ms 38.576 ms
3 1414.ae3.xr4.1d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.129) 73.075 ms 76.366 ms 191.736 ms
4 0.so-0-2-0.xr1.tc2.xs4all.net (194.109.5.10) 66.919 ms 86.601 ms 68.441 ms
5 xe-1-3-0.ams12.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.74.209) 74.751 ms 83.895 ms 79.521 ms
6 xe-0-0-0.ams10.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.186.233) 72.059 ms
xe-2-0-0.ams10.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.186.245) 76.438 ms 75.169 ms
7 a100-gw.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.66.106) 74.881 ms 75.994 ms 76.780 ms
8 server-216-137-59-10.ams1.cloudfront.net (216.137.59.10) 74.964 ms 76.403 ms 74.544 ms
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