Caching Typekit CSS

Question

I'm using TypeKit to provide fonts for a site I'm developing. When the page is loading it loads slow (more than a second). Turns out that this is because it's downloading the fonts on every requests. It's beyond me that a service such as this doesn't have etags configured to get clients to cache the fonts...but I digress. Until TypeKit fixes this I host the CSS locally temporarily.

Anyone had this issue with TypeKit? How did you work around it? Perhaps I'm wrong?

Gatt

Hmm... that could be part of the business model or down to legal issues. But on every call? Have you looked at the ceche-control headers in the resources they serve out? – Fascinate

Answer 1

According to a posting on their getsatisfaction.com account, they have at least some caching in place:

One thing to note is that although the fonts are served with an Expires header, they're also served with an Etag. The browser is required to make a request after 5 minutes, but will normally use the Etag to generate a 304 (Not Modified) response - meaning, the fonts aren't actually downloaded again.

can you check what happens using Firebug?

Fascinate