Our Search for Reliable Green Web Hosting
Mightybytes has been on a years-long quest to find the perfect green web hosting partner. In this post, we outline just how challenging that search is and outline some lessons learned along the way.
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Web Hosting and Renewable Energy
What’s the difference between a web hosting provider that uses renewable energy credits (RECs) and one powered directly by renewable energy? And where do emissions offsets fit into this picture? We explore several answers in this post.
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Why Sharing Code is Benevolent and Sustainable
Shared libraries offer quick access to solutions for common development problems. Incorporating shared libraries vetted by the developer community makes your entire codebase easier for other developers to understand and, ultimately, more sustainable. Why do the developers at Mightybyes use shared libraries whenever we can? It might have something to do with our dedication to sustainable web design.
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How to Estimate Website Traffic
There are several times when you might need to estimate website traffic. In this post, we explore a few of them.
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How Enabling Caching Speeds Up Your Website
In this post, we explain how to cache website assets using HTTP headers and caching software. Read on to learn how caching can speed up your website.
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Disabling Comments to Improve Page Speed
We recently ran a few tests on the Mightybytes website to help speed up load times, and we made an interesting discovery about the impact blog comments have on page speed, user experience, and website sustainability.
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Building Sustainable Development and Deployment Processes
Established workflows are the key to maintaining a sustainable development practice. When developers agree on how to work together, the workflow is sustainable, which ultimately makes our business more sustainable.
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Evergreen Content is More Sustainable
In this post, we unpack the long-term benefits of creating evergreen content as part of an effective and more sustainable content governance plan.
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Social Sharing Buttons: Pros and Cons
In this post, we explore the pros and cons of social sharing buttons, discussing their impact on marketing and website performance.
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Optimizing Video for the Web
Online video can be an impactful marketing and communications tool. However, with huge file sizes, it can also be your website's biggest source of carbon emissions. In this post, we'll explore how optimizing videos for the web can be done in ways that are both people- and planet-friendly.
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