Environmental practises for the web
Channel: Ben Byford
Date: 2021-12-21

Part of the Bath Digital Festival 2021 this talk centers around things we should think about as web designers / developers.

https://bathdigitalfestival.co.uk/
https://bathdigitalfestival.co.uk/events/personal:living/environmental-practices-for-the-web.html
https://www.benbyford.com
Slides - http://bit.ly/ecowebdesign

We cover: 

Page weight: Compression /  minification / gzip, HTTP2 / 3 strategies, Images, Fonts, Content strategy, Site, information architecture, Libraries / JS everything, Caching / browser

Web Infrastructure / hosting: Green Hosting, Distance to user, Page weight, Server utilisation / traffic response, CDNs, Greening internet infrastructure

User interaction / behaviour: Is the app / site solving a need? Dark patterns, Gambling / addiction, What the user wants the client wants, Empower, Green patterns / habits / less energy usage

Business practises: Data storage, Travel to work, Utilities, Turning off computers and electricals, Food, Procurement / contracts, Culture

Social norms / hardware trends: Technology hype cycle, Hardware life-cycle, Electricity consumption

Extra credits – what else can we do: Declare Climate Emergency - https://climate-emergency.com/, Advocacy, Vote with your wallet...and your vote, Send a message when you search - https://www.ecosia.org/

What I don’t know: How green ISPs / internet transport layer is? What is the greenest way to re-use or dispose of our tech? If off-setting is good or bad?