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Learn how Ecograder's website sustainability scoring system works, with tips on how to improve your website's performance, efficiency, and of course its environmental impact. Read More ›

In the next post in our Sustainable Web Design series, we look at ways to optimize images for better performance and increased sustainability, within responsive design. Read More ›

Web fonts have expanded the designer’s palette and often provide a richer experience for users—but how can we make them more sustainable? In this post, we will explore the different types of fonts that a designer can choose for a web-based project, and how each of those types of fonts impact HTTP requests, page weight and performance, and can contribute or subtract from the sustainability of a website's design.   Read More ›

One quick and easy step that you can take to improve page speed and minimize a website's carbon footprint is to optimize images, making them smaller and faster to load. Read More ›

Make your content more findable by using customer friendly error page and appropriate redirects. It's an SEO best practice, that will also make your website greener. Read More ›

In this post, learn how to add keywords and phrases to your pages to improve SEO, increase your content's 'findability', and reduce your website's carbon footprint. Read More ›

In this post, we take a look at Google PageSpeed and how it relates to customer satisfaction and sustainable web design. Read More ›

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. This is an essential component of sustainable web design. Read More ›

Want to advance your sustainable web design goals? Minify its scripts. When it comes to building sustainable websites, optimizing performance is key. Simply put, the faster a web page downloads to your laptop or mobile device, the less energy it uses. There are dozens of techniques for speeding up website performance. In this post, we're going to talk about two of those techniques: minifying code and obfuscation, which works through a process called munging. Read More ›