What Fast Food Drive-Throughs Can Teach Us About Making Fast Websites

HTTP requests and fast food drive-throughs have a lot in common: learn how to avoid long queues and improve your website's performance. In an age of near-ubiquitous high-speed internet in developed countries, loading a website can seem like a trivial matter. But currently, 50 million computer servers contribute nearly 5% of the earth’s greenhouse gases. Improving your website's performance by reducing the number of HTTP requests made on a page is an important way of making your website more sustainable.
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Sustainable Web Design: How CSS Sprites Improve Speed And Sustainability

In this post on Sustainable Web Design, we explain what a CSS Sprite is, how it can help your pages load faster, and how that reduces your carbon footprint.
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