The State of Web Vitals

Shopify web font hosting sources and the Core Web Vitals

92.5% of font-using sites (7,462) self-host fonts on their own origin (95% good LCP, 1.3s median) and 51.8% use dedicated platform/CDN font hosts (95% good LCP), while the 32.3% loading from Google Fonts drop to 93% good LCP (1.5s median).

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites October 2026 edition · Phone field outcomes · Shopify sites only
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92.5% of Shopify sites use self-hosted fonts web font hosting source, and 95% of those sites have a good LCP, against 95% of all Shopify sites.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 5,825 with phone field data · 8,067 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP pass rate

Sites with self-hosted fonts web font hosting source have a good LCP most often: 95%, against 95% of all Shopify sites. Sites with Adobe Fonts font source have it least often, at 91%.

SitesGood, needs improvement, poor LCPMedian
All Shopify sites5,82595%1.4s
Self-hosted (same origin) 92.5%5,26995%1.3s
Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 51.8%3,03095%1.4s
Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 32.3%1,96193%1.5s
Adobe Fonts (use.typekit.net) 3.2%20491%1.7s
GoodNeeds improvementPoorSites: with Chrome field data
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 5,825 with phone field data · 8,067 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Web font hosting source usage

Self-hosted fonts is the most used: 92.5% of Shopify sites.

Sites using each option (sites can use more than one) 8,067 sites
Self-hosted (same origin) 92.5% Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 51.8% Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 32.3%
Self-hosted (same origin) 92.5% Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 51.8% Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 32.3% Adobe Fonts (use.typekit.net) 3.2%
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 5,825 with phone field data · 8,067 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP phase breakdown by web font hosting source

Across the four LCP sub-parts in Chrome's field data, the largest gap between self-hosted fonts and Adobe Fonts sits in resource load delay: 586 ms median for self-hosted fonts against 694 ms for Adobe Fonts. Overall median field LCP is 1.4s for self-hosted fonts (TTFB 400 ms, load delay 586 ms, load duration 206 ms, render delay 312 ms) versus 1.7s for Adobe Fonts.

Median LCP phase breakdown (Chrome field p75) Load delay Median LCP
Shopify sites with web font hosting source 4,951402 ms590 ms205 ms314 ms590 mslab 596 ms1.4s
Self-hosted (same origin) 4,566400 ms586 ms206 ms312 ms586 mslab 592 ms1.4s
Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 2,653409 ms605 ms205 ms331 ms605 mslab 610 ms1.4s
Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 1,745417 ms652 ms196 ms376 ms652 mslab 655 ms1.5s
Adobe Fonts (use.typekit.net) 182400 ms694 ms191 ms408 ms694 mslab 699 ms1.7s
TTFB Resource load delay Resource load time Element render delay
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 5,825 with phone field data · 8,067 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Web font hosting source per framework

Vue sets the web font hosting source to self-hosted fonts on 92% of its sites, and 94% of Vue sites have a good LCP, against 95% of all sites.

FrameworkWeb font hosting source on its sitesGood LCP
Shopify sites with web font hosting source 8,067 sitesSelf-hosted (same origin) 93%Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 52%Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 32%95%
Vue 925 sitesSelf-hosted (same origin) 92%Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 73%Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 42%94%
jQuery 3,091 sitesSelf-hosted (same origin) 89%Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 53%Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 41%93%
Self-hosted (same origin) Dedicated CDN / third-party font host Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) Adobe Fonts (use.typekit.net)
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 5,825 with phone field data · 8,067 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Font hosting source or the framework

Does the framework explain the web font hosting source difference?

On jQuery, 93% of sites with self-hosted fonts web font hosting source have a good LCP, against 92% of jQuery sites with CDN-hosted fonts. Within jQuery, sites with self-hosted fonts and CDN-hosted fonts have a good LCP about equally often. On Vue, 95% of sites with self-hosted fonts web font hosting source have a good LCP, against 93% of Vue sites with CDN-hosted fonts. Within Vue, sites with self-hosted fonts and CDN-hosted fonts have a good LCP about equally often.

Why external Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts cost extra connection round-trips

Since Chrome 86 partitioned the HTTP cache by top-level site, loading fonts from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com no longer benefits from a shared cross-site cache and instead requires two cross-origin connection setups (one for CSS, one for WOFF2 files). Across 2,606 sites (32.3%) loading Google Fonts, good LCP is 93% (1.5s median), and across 255 sites (3.2%) loading Adobe Fonts it is 91% (1.7s median). Self-hosted fonts (92.5%) reach 95% good LCP (1.3s median) and dedicated platform CDNs (51.8%) reach 95% (1.4s median).

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 5,825 with phone field data · 8,067 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Understanding web font hosting sources

Self-host WOFF2 font files on your primary domain or CDN edge so font requests reuse the main HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 connection without extra DNS and TLS handshakes to fonts.googleapis.com or use.typekit.net. Across all font-using sites, 92.5% self-host fonts (95% good LCP) while 32.3% load Google Fonts (93% good LCP).

Go fix it Self-host Google Fonts → Responsive font loading strategy → Keep text visible during font load →
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 5,825 with phone field data · 8,067 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
Related signals Script loading mix → DOM depth → Iframe loading → Scripts per page → By Arjen Karel · 8,246 crawled Shopify sites (5,825 with phone Chrome field data, 8,067 sites with web font hosting source, October 2026) · How we measured