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Eco-design to reduce carbon footprint
This guide is intended for you because you have chosen (or are about to choose) Infomaniak as your hosting provider. This choice is not insignificant. You are environmentally conscious and want to do your utmost to reduce the carbon footprint on the Internet.
We already thank you for choosing a hosting provider that cares about the planet and for exploring the following ways to make progress in the eco-design of your web environment.
Why Take Action?
Websites consume energy to operate, and Internet usage is one of the main causes of increased greenhouse gas emissions.
In addition to choosing an ethical hosting provider that uses renewable energy sources to power its servers, you can also help reduce these emissions by adopting eco-responsible practices in the design and management of your websites and Mail services.
How to Take Action?
As we have seen earlier, Infomaniak acts on various fronts, including its support department: it will assist you in choosing services tailored to your needs with a focus on environmental preservation, collect your feedback to optimize our practices and draw inspiration from your experiences, all while communicating environmental issues in the hosting sector to adopt good digital practices.
At your level, there are several ways to reduce your carbon footprint on the Internet:
Minimize Energy Consumption
To reduce the energy consumption of servers and users' computers: optimize images, use web fonts, use minified scripts, and data compression technologies. Clean designs can help reduce bandwidth requirements.
Offer options to reduce data consumption by using lower-quality images or offering streaming videos at different qualities, to disable trackers and ads that consume a lot of data.
For best practices dedicated to WordPress, we recommend the GreenIT fact sheets.
Use Eco-Responsible Technologies
Sustainable development technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript are more environmentally friendly.
Promote Sustainability
Raise awareness among users about the environmental impact of Internet technologies and encourage them to adopt eco-responsible practices.
This also applies to WordPress.
What About Email?
The same habits can be applied to your email communication:
- Use an eco-friendly signature that encourages recipients to reduce their environmental impact by using eco-responsible technologies or adopting eco-responsible practices.
- Use eco-friendly email management tools that use renewable energy sources and have eco-responsible energy consumption policies.
- Use plain text emails rather than HTML emails, as HTML emails tend to consume more energy to display.
- Use PDF attachments instead of heavier formats.
- Use unsubscribe features to avoid sending unwanted emails.
- Use tracking tools to see how many people open your emails and determine if you are sending too many or too few.
All these actions can be implemented gradually and should be adapted to the situation of each website; there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Regularly monitor energy consumption statistics to continue improving the ecological performance of the site. Infomaniak will provide tools in this regard, but in the meantime, you can use https://greenframe.io.