Sustainable Web Design
How can we reduce the internet’s massive environmental impact? Here are some sustainable web design practices you can use to create high-performing, low-carbon digital products and services.
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Sustainability
What you do to the planet, you do to the people. Learn how to apply responsible environmental, social, and economic principles to your digital products, services, policies, and programs in the articles below.
Web Fonts and Sustainability
Web fonts have expanded the designer’s palette and often provide a richer experience for users—but how can we make them more sustainable?
Sustainability Storytelling Checklist [Free Download]
In this post, we outline how sustainability storytelling can bring shared value to your organization. We also break down a storytelling checklist to ensure actions align with words and you’re…
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….
Server Sustainability: Green Up Your Hosting
In this post, we share four tips to improve server sustainability through more efficient and renewable energy-powered website hosting.
Does Reliable Green Web Hosting Exist?
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…
How Ecograder Reduces Website Carbon Emissions
Mightybytes updated our free digital sustainability tool Ecograder to include carbon estimation and provide more useful, actionable reporting. Here’s how you can use it to measurably reduce estimated website carbon…
Page Redirects and Website Sustainability
Make your content more usable, findable, and sustainable by incorporating page redirects and helpful error messages into your website governance strategy. This is a straightforward SEO best practice that can…
Optimizing Video for the Web
Online video can be an impactful marketing and communications tool. However, with huge file sizes, it can also be your website’s biggest source of carbon emissions. In this post, we’ll…
Optimizing Photos Within a Responsive Design
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.