The State of Web Vitals

Web font hosting sources on Wix sites

0.1% of font-using sites (6) self-host fonts on their own origin (60% good LCP, 1.4s median) and 99.9% use dedicated platform/CDN font hosts (94% good LCP), while the 4.7% loading from Google Fonts drop to 89% good LCP (1.4s median).

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites October 2026 edition · All devices field outcomes · Wix sites only
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99.9% of Wix sites use CDN-hosted fonts web font hosting source, and 94% of those sites have a good LCP, against 94% of all Wix sites.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 5,333 with all devices field data · 5,598 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP pass rate

Sites with CDN-hosted fonts web font hosting source have a good LCP most often: 94%, against 94% of all Wix sites. Sites with Google Fonts font source have it least often, at 89%.

SitesGood, needs improvement, poor LCPMedian
All Wix sites5,33394%1.2s
Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 99.9%5,31094%1.2s
Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 4.7%25189%1.4s
Self-hosted (same origin) 0.1%560%1.4s
GoodNeeds improvementPoorSites: with Chrome field data
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 5,333 with all devices field data · 5,598 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Web font hosting source usage

CDN-hosted fonts is the most used: 99.9% of Wix sites.

Sites using each option (sites can use more than one) 5,598 sites
Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 99.9%
Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 99.9% Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 4.7% Self-hosted (same origin) 0.1%
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 5,333 with all devices field data · 5,598 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 CDN-hosted fonts and Google Fonts sits in time to first byte (TTFB): 420 ms median for CDN-hosted fonts against 505 ms for Google Fonts. Overall median field LCP is 1.2s for CDN-hosted fonts (TTFB 420 ms, load delay 455 ms, load duration 136 ms, render delay 151 ms) versus 1.4s for Google Fonts.

Median LCP phase breakdown (Chrome field p75) Load delay Median LCP
Wix sites with web font hosting source 3,929420 ms455 ms455 mslab 455 ms1.2s
Dedicated CDN / third-party font host 3,929420 ms455 ms455 mslab 455 ms1.2s
Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) 187505 ms489 ms489 mslab 489 ms1.4s
TTFB Resource load delay Resource load time Element render delay
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 5,333 with all devices field data · 5,598 sites with web font hosting sourceBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Web font hosting source per framework

React sets the web font hosting source to CDN-hosted fonts on 100% of its sites, and 94% of React sites have a good LCP, against 94% of all sites.

FrameworkWeb font hosting source on its sitesGood LCP
Wix sites with web font hosting source 5,598 sitesDedicated CDN / third-party font host 100%94%
React 5,597 sitesDedicated CDN / third-party font host 100%94%
Dedicated CDN / third-party font host Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / gstatic) Self-hosted (same origin)
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 5,333 with all devices field data · 5,598 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?

Almost every site with CDN-hosted fonts web font hosting source is a React site, and almost every React site has CDN-hosted fonts web font hosting source, so the data can't tell CDN-hosted fonts web font hosting source and React apart.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 5,333 with all devices field data · 5,598 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, 0.1% self-host fonts (60% good LCP) while 4.7% load Google Fonts (89% 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 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 5,333 with all devices field data · 5,598 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 · 5,621 crawled Wix sites (5,333 with all devices Chrome field data, 5,598 sites with web font hosting source, October 2026) · How we measured