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.