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#25 - W3C Sustainability Guidelines with Ines Akrap and Lukasz Mastalerz

Oct 10, 2023
In this episode, Ines Akrap and Lukasz Mastalerz discuss the impact of the first ever Sustainability Guidelines by W3C on digital companies and service providers. They highlight the need for low-carbon websites and the importance of meeting sustainability requirements for call for tenders. The speakers also delve into topics like avoiding digital clutter, implementing browser caching, and the importance of high impact, low effort optimizations for web performance. They touch on sustainable web design, renewable energy records, AI solutions, and share a preview of upcoming interviews with industry experts in digital sustainability.
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Quick takeaways

  • The W3C Sustainable Web Design Guidelines provide practical recommendations for web developers and designers to boost digital sustainability by reducing waste, optimizing web performance, and minimizing carbon footprint.
  • The development of the W3C Sustainable Web Design Guidelines involved a diverse and active community, focusing on various aspects of web development to ensure practicality and comprehensiveness, with the aim of becoming a recognized industry standard.

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Importance of W3C Sustainable Web Design Guidelines

The W3C Sustainable Web Design Guidelines have been developed to address the challenge of reducing the environmental impact of our digital world. By focusing on a range of impacts beyond just CO2 emissions, these guidelines aim to provide practical recommendations for web developers and designers to boost digital sustainability.

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