With increased awareness of our envirnomental impact, many products and services are now claiming to be sustainable or eco-friendly. It’s easy to see in some cases, less so in others. What makes a web design service eco-friendly?
Eco Web Design Agencies
If you’re working with an agency to create a new website, who you work with will have a large impact on how green your website ends up being. Many companies claim to be sustainable, but how do they achieve that?
As an eco web design company, we have looked at all our business practices to be as sustainable as possible. We no longer use private cars for transport, instead using trains, cycles and occasionally taxis. Our suppliers are also chosen for their sustainability including The Phone Coop, EcoTalk for mobiles and Coop for banking. We use zero waste shops and ethical suppliers for as many products as we can.
Every pound we spend can have a positive or negative impact, so we’re constantly looking for ways to improve how and where we spend our money.
Green Web Hosting
A fundamental part of a website being eco-friendly is running on green web hosting. But what does this mean? Green web hosting uses renewable energy to power the fast computers in datacentres that allow 24/7 access to the website.
Green web hosting is a quick and easy way to improve your website sustainability and we can help you move your website over to renewable power.
Clean, Fast Website Design
We’ve probably all been on those mobile websites that turn our phone into a hand-held heater. That’s because they are using lots of power, which can be a huge load time, complicated code or lots of advertising code running.
The ‘website carbon calculator’ website – https://www.websitecarbon.com/
An eco-friendly website is fast to load, using as little as possible to get the message across. If you’re using WordPress, avoiding heavy themes and page builders can help with this. Not using piles of advertising code also reduces energy usage, as well as helping us all stay away from surveillance capitalism and all the issues that come with that.
Summary
A website can be eco-friendly in various ways including the agency you might work with, where the website is hosted and how complex the website is. As an eco web design agency we can help with all of this – contact us today for a chat!