Decreasing Load Time When Using Google Web Fonts

I’ve been using Google Web Fonts ever since I started building this blog. It’s an awesome service with a great user interface and it makes it really easy to add fonts to your web site. Of course I had to find something wrong with it. Earlier this week our company released our new web site. On our Yammer page, one of my colleagues posted a link to a WebPageTest result for it and it fared reasonably well. It got an ”F” on the ”First Byte Time” test, but that test is really finicky and could just as well show an ”A” if you retake the test (as I later became aware). This triggered my inner masochist and I just had to run the same test on this blog. The first result was this: Test | Score —-|:–: First Byte Time | A Keep-alive Enabled | A Compress Transfer | A Compress Images | C Cache st…