diff --git a/addons/web/views/webclient_templates.xml b/addons/web/views/webclient_templates.xml
index e90f55d71c9..37587fb972c 100644
--- a/addons/web/views/webclient_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/web/views/webclient_templates.xml
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@
             <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no"/>
         </xpath>
         <xpath expr="//head/link[last()]" position="after">
+            <link rel="preload" href="/web/static/lib/fontawesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0" as="font" crossorigin=""/>
             <t t-call-assets="web.assets_common" t-js="false"/>
             <t t-call-assets="web.assets_frontend" t-js="false"/>
         </xpath>