Quick WordPress tip: If you want a "duotone" effect, don't be lazy and use the built-in CSS filters, but use the opportunity to actually save the image with a lower colour depth and file size. Speeds up your website and saves energy.
Try different file formats. PNG might actually be leaner than JPG.
Today I want to acknowledge and praise the Sustainable Web Manifesto for guiding me in a much kinder and enjoyable direction for my career and freelance business over the last three years.
Whenever I'm in doubt about a client request, I revisit the 6 simple principles. The constraints are good for me; they keep me on the right track.
Should I use YouTube, VideoPress or local hosting with WordPress? Can Embed Privacy reduce data use and improve privacy? Let's find out!
Blog draft on https://oldrup.dk/en/more-speed-less-tracking-with-embed-privacy/
All feedback is appreciated π
Embedding videos on your WordPress website, while ensuring privacy, performance and with some level of sustainability considerations.
I'm drafting a blog post on the topic. Is that something you'd like me to finish? β
Oh wow. This is really cool: https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/
Thanks for sharing! From just skimming I saw already really nice stuff (Design Systems, Assets Handling...) and I'm really forward to go through this whole thing.
I'm sure, that at some point this will be the same with WCAG: It is expected to fulfill some kind of standard in your work in web industry. https://front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/111035773023906082
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable. Following these guidelines which utilize planetary, people, and prosperity (PPP) principles throughout the decision-making processes, you can minimize your environmental impact through a mixture of user-centered design, performant web development, renewable infrastructure, sustainable business strategy, and (with metrics) various combinations of those mentioned. It should be noted that these guidelines will not address every possible mechanism or strategy to become sustainable, as such, these guidelines (which are notably Web orientated and focused) should be seen as a starting point in a sustainability journey (coverage does not extend for example to manufacturing or shipping of physical products). Following these guidelines will often make Web content more accessible, usable, and performant as a by-product.
π‘ Curious to learn more about data centre sustainability from a world expert who knows how to keep the techy stuff accessible? Then join us online at Green Tech South West to hear from Professor Deborah Andrews on Thu 30 March, 12.30pm.
For a taster of what this event is going to be all about...
Transitioning from a linear to circular economy is a HUGE challenge, especially with regard to electrical and electronic equipment. The data centre industry is heavily reliant on such equipment but attention to sustainability typically focusses on energy efficiency and carbon reduction.
Deborah's project, CEDaCI (Circular Economy for the Data Centre Industry), was established to raise awareness about the (un)sustainability of current DCI business practices, and to demonstrate the potential for change and improving material resource efficiency.
Deborahβs talk will describe the overall project journey, achievements and challenges to date along with resources available for use RIGHT NOW! AMAZING! π
For more details and to RSVP to watch live or later, head to our meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/greentech-south-west/events/291072432/
#DigitalSustainability #LetsGreenTheWeb #CircularDCI #CircularEconomy
A tool written in go to help you factor carbon intensity into decisions about where and when to run computing jobs. - GitHub - thegreenwebfoundation/grid-intensity-go: A tool written in go to help ...
We helped to write a guide for Climate Action Tech. Very rewarding to share with this community. Feel free to join them to share more resources and best practices. It's really
https://climateaction.tech/actions/create-low-carbon-images/
#digitalsustainability #letsgreentheweb #LetsGreenTheWeb #sustainablewebdesign #image #images #community #climateaction
Bjarne Oldrup
Mario
Matthias Andrasch
hanopcan (Hannah Smith)
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Derek Salmon [Pikselkraft]
