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Guide to Fix Site Slow Due to Blocked MaxCDN URL by MCMC of Font Awesome of Wordpress

Update as of 10th Aug 2022:

We've also noticed that polyfill.io is also being blocked by MCMC now. Detected blocked remote resources by MCMC as of today is maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com ** and **polyfill.io


Recently, Malaysia MCMC has blocked the following hostname which caused slow issue for any WordPress website that uses/loaded Font Awesome on the following remote sources:


https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/*https://polyfill.io


This issue has caused slow website loading, when the website is loaded from Malaysia ISPs i.e Unifi, Digi, Maxis, Celcom, etc.


There are 2 methods to resolve this.


Method 1 : Local host the Font Awesome resources on your own hosting


Tutorial for hosting Font Awesome in your own hosting can be found here: https://fontawesome.com/v5.15/how-to-use/on-the-web/setup/hosting-font-awesome-yourself


Method 2 : Remove Font Awesome remote resources URL from your website


This is the easier method as the first method require script/coding update, which lots of Wordpress users may not want/know how to go about. Font Awesome are commonly bundled with some themes/plugins and most likely are not being used. So it is safe to unload them. You can easily unload Font Awesome via a plugin such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-asset-clean-up/



  1. Login to Wordpress Admin Dashboard




  1. Go to Plugins ** >> **Add New




  1. Search , install ** and **activate ** the plugin **Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster




  1. Go to Settings >> Asset Cleanup to open the plugin settings





  1. Click on the tab CSS & JS Manager and wait for it to fully load




  1. Use your browser search to search for CSS resource begins with https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/ and tick on Unload site-wide * everywhere checkbox. This is to unload the said blocked resources site-wide







  1. Lastly, click the Update button and clear your site cache via the cache plugin that you are using



Updated on: 07/01/2023

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