Practical Techniques for Sustainable Web Development

Presentation for developers, students and businesses interested in measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of websites.

Make your website greener

Together, we can change the internet for the better. My main mission is to empower as many as possible to build sustainable and inclusive WordPress websites. Therefore, I will gladly give a talk at your educational institutions and businesses group or meetups. It’s completely free.

The presentation takes one hour, including questions. It has previously been held at SDU in Kolding, for design students at ZBC, at WordCamp Denmark in 2023 and WordCamp Europe in 2024.

We’ll cover the following topics

  • How to objectively measure the carbon footprint of websites
  • How to identify the biggest culprits
  • How to optimize content such as video, audio, images, text and third-party scripts in practice
  • What level of reduction you can typically expect
  • Is a climate-friendly website a boring website?
  • A single case study
  • Selected online articles, groups and podcasts

Prerequisites and tools

A little knowledge of your browser’s developer tools is a good starting point, but not a requirement.

The presentation only refers to freely available tools and resources.

Slides from the last presentation available on WordCamp.org

Bjarne

Bjarne Oldrup

Bjarne er webudvikler med en passion for et bæredygtigt, inkluderende og respektfuldt internet.

Med en baggrund som datatekniker, uddannet i 1992, har han arbejdet som programmør, systemadministrator og netværksspecialist. I dag fokuserer han på hjemmesiders CO2-fodaftryk, webtilgængelighed og GDPR-overholdelse.

Bjarne har brugt det sidste årti på at arbejde med mellemstore virksomheder for at hjælpe dem med at reducere deres hjemmesiders miljøpåvirkning og fremme en sund onlinepraksis.

WordPress, HTML, CSS og LiteSpeed-webservere er Bjarnes yndlingsværktøjer, og open source-fællesskabet er hans komfortzone.

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