Blog Category: Sustainability

Sustainability is core to Mightybytes’ values. Whether we’re writing about sustainable web design or how we power our digital products with renewable energy, we believe in a better future for people and planet. Good practices will help us get there.

We write often about the intersection of sustainability, design, and technology. Topics range from facilitating more sustainable design workshops and helping users make more sustainable choices to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and our years-long quest for good green web hosting or our TEDx Talk. We also cover a variety of sustainable web design practices focused on faster performance and efficiency of digital products, such as optimizing code, enabling caching, and using CSS sprites. Finally, we regularly share internet stats about renewable energy use and the overall efficiency of sites crawled by our free web tool Ecograder.

For more information on how this plays out at our company, check out our sustainability page.

12.10.2013

Mobile First Design and Sustainability

Posted by Mightybytes in Content Strategy, Mobile Devices, Sustainability, UX Design tagged with Sustainable Web Design

Designing for mobile devices first can lead to more user-friendly—and energy efficient—digital products and services. In this post, we explore why mobile first is a potentially more sustainable design approach. Read More ›

11.01.2013

Ecograder and Your Website Sustainability Score

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Our Company, Software Development, Sustainability tagged with Climate Change, Sustainable Web Design

Learn how Ecograder's website sustainability scoring system works, with tips on how to improve your website's performance, efficiency, and environmental impact. Read More ›

09.03.2013

Optimizing Photos Within a Responsive Design

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Design, Software Development, Sustainability, Web Development tagged with Design, Front End Development, Sustainable Web Design

In the next post in our Sustainable Web Design series, we look at ways to optimize images for better performance and increased sustainability, within responsive design. Read More ›

07.19.2013

Web Fonts and Sustainability

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Design, Sustainability tagged with Design, Sustainability, Sustainable Web Design, Typography, UX Design, Web Design

Web fonts have expanded the designer’s palette and often provide a richer experience for users—but how can we make them more sustainable? Read More ›

04.19.2013

Optimize Images to Improve Sustainability

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Design, Sustainability tagged with Sustainable Web Design

Optimize your images to decrease page load times for better sustainability, usability, and accessibility. In this post, we show you how. Read More ›

04.19.2013

Page Redirects and Website Sustainability

Posted by Mightybytes in Digital Marketing, SEO and SEM Strategy, Sustainability, UX Design tagged with Corporate Digital Responsibility, Search Engine Optimization

Image of a search field with buttons that read 'search' and 'I'm feeling green' below the field.

Make your content more usable, findable, and sustainable by incorporating page redirects and helpful error messages into your website governance strategy. This is a straightforward SEO best practice that can also improve website sustainability and make site users happier. Read More ›

04.19.2013

Keyword Optimization for SEO and Sustainability

Posted by Mightybytes in Business Strategy, Sustainability tagged with Search Engine Optimization, Sustainable Web Design

In this post, learn how keyword optimization can improve SEO, increase your content's 'findability', and reduce energy use and digital emissions. Read More ›

04.12.2013