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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

3.1 Autoplay

Do not autoplay videos.

Easy to implement

13 High impact score

Autoplay is bad UX as the user hasn’t indicated they want to watch it. It is also a waste of data transfer.

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