It's not down. The reason it's not loading properly is because requests to fonts.googleapis.com are timing out. If you let it simmer for a minute or two, once that request times out, it loads fine.
The reason it hangs there is because they include the font in a link tag in the head, so the browser has to wait before it can render anything. Normally you do this to avoid the flash of unstyled content [0]. Otherwise you could end up having the font load after the initial render, which I think would force everything to get redrawn.
I've been having internet issues all night, I think it's Comcast or a CDN that's having problems.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 19.4 ms ] threadThe reason it hangs there is because they include the font in a link tag in the head, so the browser has to wait before it can render anything. Normally you do this to avoid the flash of unstyled content [0]. Otherwise you could end up having the font load after the initial render, which I think would force everything to get redrawn.
I've been having internet issues all night, I think it's Comcast or a CDN that's having problems.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/google.com.html
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com
http://downforme.org/is-google.com-down-today-for-everyone