Average loading time is > 8 seconds

[avivace]

If we are to believe the new Matomo statistics, pandocs page have a very high average loading time.

• Investigate further

[ISSOtm]

I would suppose that's due to the fonts only being loaded after their respective stylesheets, which are ordered after several other rather large ones. That would make bandwidth a major bottleneck on "tight" connection, even with small response times. (I'd guess mobile phones are particularly affected by this?)

Possible solutions to that (putative) problem:

• Loading these stylesheets first.
• Adding <link rel="preload"> tags to start loading the fonts early, before they are even "called" by the CSS.

[ISSOtm]

Sudden thought: how many of those long loads occur on the "single-page" version?