How to create a sustainable website
If you're here, you probably don't need convincing about why a sustainable website is important. So, this resource is here to explain how you can create a sustainable website.
In this series of articles, we delve into how your website's design, code, hosting, and the content you add to it can add to its energy consumption – and what you can do to save energy.
🌳 Sustainable web design tips
🌳 Sustainable coding and hosting tips
🌳 Sustainable content creation tips
Hope you found some useful stuff in the articles, and have been able to put some of it into action.
Here're some more things you could do:
1. Choose to work with environmentally responsible suppliers – for example, your web agency 😉
A sustainable supplier not only says they care about the environment. They take action – with their product or service, and their business processes – to be part of a more sustainable future.
For every new website project we launch, we offset our environmental impact. (Based on how long the project takes, and our per-person, per-day carbon footprint.) We also regularly review our own suppliers; sometimes nudging them towards more environmentally responsible practices. Sometimes parting ways.
2. Invest in carbon removal schemes and/or plant trees!
We invest in carbon removal for any international travel we do. And we plant trees for every new website project we launch (though your website continues to use energy every day). Tools like Digital Carbon Online and Website Carbon can help you measure your website's carbon footprint.
Our Cultural Website Sustainability Benchmark Report offers some ways you can reduce it. And, in the meantime, knowing your website's carbon footprint helps you to offset it.
3. Become a Climate Action Workforce
On top of ad hoc carbon removal, and tree planting for projects, we fund tree planting and certified climate impact projects (such as wind and solar farms) – all over the world, and for every member of the Supercool team – every month.
Follow our progress: Supercool + Ecologi