How to update font awesome?

Question

I help update seo stuff for uooutlands.com often font awesome comes up for misc page speed optimizations and i am not certain how to optimize the links to newer versions (i am not the designer)

I want to keep what they have but was curious if there are newer links to swap in thanks a ton!

I think some of these were the devs key:

https://use.fontawesome.com/f994eaf4bc.js

https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v4.7.0/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2

https://use.fontawesome.com/f994eaf4bc.css

“ Using CSS @import in an external stylesheet can add additional delays during the loading of a web page. STYLESHEETS WITH @IMPORT STATEMENTS AND THE STYLESHEETS THEY IMPORT”

Also hoping it helps stay visible on load “ Ensure text remains visible during webfont load” https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v4.7.0/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2

Maybe start here? https://fontawesome.com/download

Or here?

https://cdnjs.com/libraries/font-awesome

Answer 1

I my experience the fastest way to use FA is with Kits - but that would require an update to FA5 (or even 6 which currently is in beta-Stadium). The download-link you showed will not help, as that takes you to the current version (which raises the update-issue again). You can find 4.7-related stuff at https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/