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3.1 Set goals based on performance and energy impact

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Define performance and environmental targets, and design content with awareness of the relative energy and processing cost.

Success Criteria

  • Performance goals:
    Set clear performance and environmental goals for the project, including limits on requests, elements rendered, or other measurable resource use.
  • Energy intensity:
    Prioritize lower-impact design choices, paying attention to measurable differences in energy use across components. Complex structure, styling, and script-driven experiences along with graphics-heavy and media-rich rendering increase the computational complexity of rendering. Use more intensive approaches only where these add clear value.

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3.2 Minify and remove unused code

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3.3 Modularize bandwidth-heavy components

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3.4 Avoid redundancy and duplication in code

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