How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website — Smashing Magazine
September 24, 2025
As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet.
Source: How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website — Smashing Magazine
Computers (whether it’s your laptop, your desktop, your phone, or the servers that serve websites) consume power. That power has to be generated often by burning fossil fuels. It uses water for cooling, particularly on the surface side. In recent years, we’ve begun to think about the environmental impact of the sites that we build. There are a few presentations on Conffab that look at this issue. Most recently, a fantastic one from Hidde de Vries at CSS Day.
But here James Chudley addresses specifically the question of how we can minimise the environmental impact of our websites.
