Last night I was searching for some information and found a DigitalOcean help article. Except, instead of being exactly what I needed (as the Google search suggested), I was greeted by a blank page...and a long wait...

My internet was fine, but for a short time, TypeKit's CDN was having outages, but what has that got to do with DigitalOcean?

Here's what I saw (note that this effect is emulated by re-routing TypeKit):

What is the issue

What you're looking at is a blank page, for as long as it takes for the third-party to return.

The reason it's blocking rendering is because the fonts are loaded using a script tag in the head element. Scripts in the head have been

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