Re: Bringing the Green Web to WordPress [via Sustainable Web Design Community Group]

Give us widget code!

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca> wrote:

> Hey Jack,
>
> Thanks for posting this.
>
> On May 4, 2018, at 1:59 PM, W3C Community Development Team <
> team-community-process@w3.org> wrote:
> With Mozilla's 2018 Internet Health Report finally shining a light on
> sustainability, and thanks to Chris Adams' presentation at MozFest last
> year, I've been inspired to seriously up my game in terms of helping
> wherever I can in this field.
>
>
> Mozilla’s been such a great force looking at the health of the Open Web.
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Internet_Health_Report
>
> Is there a link to  Chris Adams’ presentation?
>
> As a first step, I've put together a very simple WordPress widget that
> allows users to easily add The Green Web Foundation's badge to their
> website. I think of the widget more as a marketing tool than anything else
> – i.e. it gets The Green Web Foundation into WordPress' shop window.
>
>
> I like the The Green Web Foundation, but it isn’t being well supported.
> I’ve been trying to get Amazon’s new green hosting listed:
> https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
>
> But as I understand it the GWF has  “a self-service account environment
> where - normally - owners register their details and keep them up to date."
>
> So far Amazon hasn’t stepped forward to do this.
>
> You can see the widget in action on my blog (bottom of the sidebar).
>
>
> Cool.
>
> My next steps within WordPress are to create a theme that incorporates all
> of the sustainable web design techniques. My goal is to make a theme that
> can theoretically score 100 with Ecograder. I say theoretically because
> some things are dependent on the host, MozRank etc. But if, for example, I
> could get the demo site for the theme near to 100, that'd be awesome. And I
> could also centre all of the content on the demo site around Internet
> sustainability.
>
>
> You know about these past talks about Sustainable UX:
> http://www.sustainableux.com/talks/
>
> I like to look at this from a systems point of view, I wrote up this for
> Drupal:
> http://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/tips-sustainable-drupal-7-8-website
>
> Similar stuff could be done for WordPress.
>
> Also, hello everyone! I'm Jack and I work as an engineer on the
> WordPress.com VIP team. I'm rather passionate about environmental issues.
> :) I was the Green Party candidate in a UK parliamentary by-election last
> year which meant I appeared on TV a bit!
>
>
> Most performance issues will have a sustainability impact:
> https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?status%5B%5D=Open&issue_tags=
> performance
>
> Also building in mechanisms like:
> https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize
>
> But generally with Drupal I try to ask myself, what could be fixed in core
> so that we don’t just fix the 1% of the users that actually add the
> extension, but that we are able to shift the whole community. We’ve done
> this with accessibility. Sustainability not so much.
>
> Imagine if we could save 1% of the power used in all of the WordPress
> sites out there?  What if we could make incremental gains so that it was
> easier for everyone to understand how their users will have better
> experiences (and use less power) if sustainability wasn’t just an
> afterthought.
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Gifford, President, OpenConcept Consulting Inc.
> Drupal 8 Core Accessibility Maintainer - https://drupal.org/user/27930
> Twitter: @mgifford @openconcept_ca
>
> Open source web development for social change - http://openconcept.ca
> Drupal Association Member | Acquia Partner | Certified B Corporation
>
>


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