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  • April 23, 2021 at 3:04 am #503807
    tonyfogarty
    Participant

    Hi,

    I hope someone can point me towards what I'm looking for.

    I've just switched over to a child theme based on Genesis Sample.

    I'm trying to improve my load time for Google. Previously I had some code in Functions.php to restrict Dashicons to only if the user was logged in - so this eliminated it for almost all users on the front end. However, I've just noticed that the mobile menu uses 3 dashicons (the hamburger, up arrow, down arrow). I reinstated Dashicons to make the menu work, but it has a significant impact on speed.

    I'm hoping there might be a way to have the menu use some locally stored icons instead, but I can't find where to begin doing this. I'm usually happy to hack around in php files, but don't know much js.

    Any tips gratefully received.

    Thanks

    Tony

    https://tonycollinsfogarty.com
    April 23, 2021 at 12:12 pm #503815
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    Dashicons is an icon font. I regularly replace this on site front ends with a custom subset of Fontawesome fonts called a kit. You need a Pro license to build a kit though.

    I'm not understanding why dashicons would be adding so much overhead to your site, though. The files are miniscule.

    Regards,

    Victor
    https://victorfont.com/
    Call us toll free: 844-VIC-FONT (842-3668)
    Have you requested your free website audit yet?

    April 25, 2021 at 4:44 am #503833
    tonyfogarty
    Participant

    Hi Victor,

    Dashicons scores highly on the 'render-blocking' resources on Google's Pagespeed Insight test. (Along with Google fonts). In fact on my list of files, it's one of the worst. On the previous theme, I eliminated Dashicons from the front end and my score jumped. When I switched to this theme, pagespeed was fine, but then I realised the mobile menu wasn't rendering. I turned Dashicons back on so the mobile menu worked, but my pagespeed score plummeted.

    Ideally, I don't want to replace it with another font set. I'm looking instead to just use 3 locally stored icons from the media library.

    January 25, 2025 at 7:02 pm #509022
    stefanofalcini69
    Participant

    hi i'm using minimum pro theme and I see double menu icon on mobile, only in the homepage.
    How can I resolve?
    thanks

    January 28, 2025 at 5:24 am #509040
    AnitaC
    Keymaster

    @stefanofalcini69 please open a new thread. Closing.

    Need help with customization or troubleshooting? Reach out to me.

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