UX and sustainable Web
summary
The talk explains how specific web design and hosting choices reduce the web’s carbon footprint, noting statistics like the web causing ~4% of global CO2, a Google search emitting ~1–10 g CO2, and an average page view ~1.76 g CO2. It recommends measurable actions and tools—use green web hosting and checks (Website Carbon, Green Web Check), convert images to WebP (25–34% smaller), limit fonts/variants, optimize performance, and remove autoplay video—to cut bytes transferred and thus emissions and load time.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00UX and sustainable Web
- 2:33Introduction
- 4:00Current UX sustainability
- 7:14Sustainable Web Manifesto
- 10:01Best practices for sustainable sites
- 13:15Optimizing images, fonts and video
- 18:32Avoid autoplay in videos
- 22:44Sustainability and accessibility
- 23:07Need for sustainable UX
- 24:55Check site footprint
- 26:42Q&A
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