If you’re making a website, think #sustainability!
Say no to Wix, SquareSpace, Elementor, Divi, WP Bakery, and so on. Ban JPEG from your vocabulary!
I know not everyone has the budget for a pro, so I made this guide.
Now you can DIY a website with sustainability best practices baked in. It won't be as efficient as the work of a full-timer, but still pretty good.
#webdev #sustainablewebdev #greenwebdev #WordPress #plugins #webdesign #webdevelopment #sustainable
https://codewordcreative.com/free-can-beat-crappy-how-to-diy-a-basic-website/
@rose Awesome tips and great that more and more people focus on #sustainability for websites. Thank you!
When I gave my blog an overhaul, I added a dedicated page for it: https://linux-audit.com/sustainable-web-design/
Hope people will point visitors to the aspect of sustainability, so that those who need a new website will ask/demand for less energy-hungry websites.
@mboelen Very nice!
The guide above is more the basic-level stuff that anyone can reasonably implement. It's more about avoiding the 4 mb Elementor crap and getting it down to 100-400 kb instead. :D
I think people don't always realise that a lot of it IS easy enough to implement.
RE: More extensive guides, I'm part of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group - anyone is welcome to contribute to the Github.
@rose
Yes, usually a few steps can already make a huge difference. I personally make it a sport to squeeze out as much as I can. But at some point it is good enough.
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/linux-audit-com/
Great that you work in that WIG. Would love to contribute, but lacking the spare time currently.
@mboelen I also like EcoGrader for a precise rundown, and Beacon for exact page size. I have a link to everything I use in my footer. Sort of my selling point - sites that look good while being efficient.
@rose
Too bad it does not work for my website. It blocks all requests that don't offer data encoding (compression). So I just provided them feedback via contact form. After all, not doing compressed requests is also wasting energy 
@mboelen It's because their user agent includes Lighthouse as I recall. That gets blocked often. I took that off mine - my manual bot blocker was blocking it.
@hoppp @mboelen Ahh to be honest I don't use it enough myself, since I got onto Bluesky. Bluesky is nice, too!
But there are advantages here, like the character restriction. I kinda like the federated nature of it, but it does make it a bit less accessible to many.
And yeah, your site is pretty good to start with. Checkout the plugin advice (including things that can be removed), and the image stuff, and you'll already be a lot better than most.