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A practical look at font loading for a driving school

22 Jun 2026

How a driving school deals with font loading — and what usually goes wrong.

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The problem: a booking tool that demands an account. font loading slows the page for a driving school.

We check font loading for a driving school once a quarter. It takes five minutes and has caught two problems in the past year. Both would have caused downtime within a week.

The job started when a driving school realised their font loading had been wrong for months. Nobody noticed because the site still loaded.

For a driving school, the boring path won: HTTPS, a backup that we have restored once on purpose, and a calendar reminder for font loading.

A form that collects data for a driving school should say where the message goes. Nine fields and a captcha on a quiet Tuesday will cost you the person who actually wanted to pay.

Search consoles like honest sitemaps. Every loc should be a document. Reserving ten thousand empty shells and hoping Google does not notice is not a strategy for font loading.

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