#sustyweb

MDN has an introduction to Web Sustainability (Remember SustyWeb from a couple of weeks ago?)

It provides a nice lay-person introduction to sustainable web description and practices. It also includes some links to useful resources such as https://www.webpagetest.org/carbon-control/ and https://www.websitecarbon.com/ for getting a sense of a websites's carbon footprint. I encourage you to try a couple of your favourite websites as well as your own you have developed to see how each compares relatively.

Are you aware of WSWD, or SustyWeb yet? If not it is time to brush up.

It is a new(ish) initiative from the W3C seeking to create a specification for web sustainability similar to what they did with web accessibility.

While it is early days it is at minimum, a primer for ethical and moral practices to include in web design/development. Longer term I could see progressive governments mandating some sort of adherance similar as WCAG is to accessibility.