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Roberts, Chris
Mar 30, 2012, 9:39:17 PM3/30/12
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Curious about the custom fonts data. Is this looking only for @font-face instances, or is there more to it? Font stacks, sifr, cufon?
Chris Roberts
Steve Souders
Mar 31, 2012, 1:45:53 PM3/31/12
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Here's a pie chart showing "Pages Using Custom Fonts": http://httparchive.org/interesting.php#fonts
It shows that, as of Mar 15 2012, 8% of sites use custom fonts. This is based on HTTP requests. It's calculated by dividing the number of sites that have at least one font request divided by the total number of sites. A request is considered a font if:
response Content-Type contains "font"
OR
the url is like (MySQL syntax) "%.eot" or "%.eot?%" or "%.ttf" or "%.ttf?%" or "%.ttc" or "%.ttc%" or "%.woff" or "%.woff?%" or "%.otf" or "%.otf?%"
OR
url starts with "http://use.typekit." and the Content-Type is "text/css" (they inline their fonts as data: URIs)
This logic is found in dbapi.inc in the function computeOther().
-Steve
It shows that, as of Mar 15 2012, 8% of sites use custom fonts. This is based on HTTP requests. It's calculated by dividing the number of sites that have at least one font request divided by the total number of sites. A request is considered a font if:
response Content-Type contains "font"
OR
the url is like (MySQL syntax) "%.eot" or "%.eot?%" or "%.ttf" or "%.ttf?%" or "%.ttc" or "%.ttc%" or "%.woff" or "%.woff?%" or "%.otf" or "%.otf?%"
OR
url starts with "http://use.typekit." and the Content-Type is "text/css" (they inline their fonts as data: URIs)
This logic is found in dbapi.inc in the function computeOther().
-Steve
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