Thanks, Ari, great initiative!

Raising awareness about the fact that the internet runs on a lot of electricity and that all that data has to be stored and transferred, seems important to me, too. Especially in these strange times, when we’re relying on the web even more. People react surprised when I tell them about the impact of the internet on climate change. 🙂

The problem is that we create these “giant websites”, with everything and if possible even more (scripts). Then we try to optimise them. Caching and maybe some more resources, because “they are cheaper than our time to build them the right way”. But often we are spending our visitor’s time.

Instead, we should keep website weight in mind when we build them. Weight is part of the budget, part of the quality of the result. As part of the budget, it helps us make design decision as well.

It is obviously not that straightforward, but a lighter, well-crafted site is not only better for the environment, but also faster by design.