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		packman on March 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Speed up your site by loading Font Awesome asynchr... Is just to prevent above-the-fold render blocking or there is any other advantage I haven't noticed?

bluefreeze on March 11, 2014 [–]

Yeah. It just defer request Font Awesome, so the icon will show up after the main css parsed by browser. But I think it will speed up the site.

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