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Governance

  • 0.1 Documented Policy
  • 0.2 Essential Tracking and Ads

UX / Design

  • 1.2 Rich Content
  • 1.3 Use of Images
  • 1.4 Awareness
  • 1.5 Data Transfer and Emissions
  • 1.6 Carbon Aware Design
  • 1.7 Colour Scheme
  • 1.8 User Retention

Images

  • 2.1 File Formats
  • 2.2 Image Optimisation
  • 2.3 Image Resolution
  • 2.4 Browser Cropping

Video

  • 3.1 Autoplay
  • 3.2 Script Loading
  • 3.3 Streaming Resolution

Content

  • 4.1 Content Audit
  • 4.2 Digital First
  • 4.3 Easy Access
  • 4.4 Descriptive Headings

Fonts

  • 5.1 Font Variations
  • 5.2 File Formats
  • 5.3 Clean Files
  • 5.4 System Fonts

Web Development

  • 6.1 Lazy Loading Images
  • 6.2 Responsive Design
  • 6.3 Modular Design
  • 6.4 Minification
  • 6.5 Templates
  • 6.6 Asset Loading
  • 6.7 Analytics
  • 6.8 Data Minimisation
  • 6.9 Stylesheet
  • 6.10 Text Compression
  • 6.11 Carbon Aware Development

Development Operations

  • 7.1 Bad Robots
  • 7.2 Dev Environments
  • 7.3 Dataset
  • 7.4 Site Architecture
  • 7.5 Caching
  • 7.6 Pipeline Code
  • 7.8 Green Hosting

1.4 Awareness

The website has content which raises awareness of digital emissions

Easy to implement

5 High impact score

Introduction

To help raise awareness about emissions from digital products, websites must have content helping to explain how the internet causes emissions and what can be done about it.

Example

Netlify

Google Cloud

AWS

 

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