MachMetrics
AUGUST 7, 2019
Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases happiness, and – in the most recent news – can prevent hate. Fast Websites Save Energy.
Smashing Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2019
How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? “You
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High Scalability
JUNE 22, 2018
Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). There are more quotes, more everything. Get them while they're hot.
CSS - Tricks
DECEMBER 25, 2020
Over on the Polypane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof ( it is )), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data , about the prefers-reduced-data media query. No browser support yet, but eventually you can use it in CSS to make choices that reduce data usage.
O'Reilly
APRIL 30, 2024
Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.
Smashing Magazine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.
Strategic Tech
FEBRUARY 20, 2021
When there is an incentives mismatch, a lot of energy can be expended. And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. And the more I see that things are always going to be a struggle because incentives are widely misaligned.
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