Three Years of Ecograder Stats on Internet Sustainability
For three years, our free web sustainability tool Ecograder has crawled URLs and ranked them on performance, usability, findability, and use of renewable energy. We have compiled and assessed all the data Ecograder collected during that time. Check out the infographic below for some helpful information on the state of a more planet-friendly internet.
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Sustainable UX: Asking Big Questions About the Internet’s Role in Climate Change
Speakers at Sustainable UX, the first-ever online conference covering digital design and climate change, asked some big questions during their presentations:
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New DOJ Position on Website Accessibility
A recent shift in position from the Department of Justice could have legal ramifications for how people with disabilities access your website.
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Mightybytes Founder Tim Frick’s TEDx Talk on Web Sustainability
This spring, Mightybytes founder Tim Frick spoke on the topic of web sustainability at TEDx BentleyU. In this 13-minute presentation, Tim debunks the common misconception that the web is a green medium simply because it's paperless, and offers solutions for a lighter internet footprint.
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Our Search for Reliable Green Web Hosting
Mightybytes has been on a years-long quest to find the perfect green web hosting partner. In this post, we outline just how challenging that search is and outline some lessons learned along the way.
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Web Hosting and Renewable Energy
What’s the difference between a web hosting provider that uses renewable energy credits (RECs) and one powered directly by renewable energy? And where do emissions offsets fit into this picture? We explore several answers in this post.
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Why Sharing Code is Benevolent and Sustainable
Shared libraries offer quick access to solutions for common development problems. Incorporating shared libraries vetted by the developer community makes your entire codebase easier for other developers to understand and, ultimately, more sustainable. Why do the developers at Mightybyes use shared libraries whenever we can? It might have something to do with our dedication to sustainable web design.
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How to Estimate Website Traffic
There are several times when you might need to estimate website traffic. In this post, we explore a few of them.
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How Enabling Caching Speeds Up Your Website
In this post, we explain how to cache website assets using HTTP headers and caching software. Read on to learn how caching can speed up your website.
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Disabling Comments to Improve Page Speed
We recently ran a few tests on the Mightybytes website to help speed up load times, and we made an interesting discovery about the impact blog comments have on page speed, user experience, and website sustainability.
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