Web Sustainability Guidelines

Now in their ninth draft, the Web Sustainability Guidelines consist of 94 recommendations to help teams create more sustainable digital products and services. These guidelines were created by the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Sustainable Web Design community group.

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3.2 Minify Your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Web Development

3.3 Use Code-Splitting Within Projects

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3.4 Apply Tree Shaking To Code

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3.5 Ensure Your Solutions Are Accessible

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3.6 Avoid Code Duplication

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3.7 Rigorously Assess Third-Party Services

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3.8 Use HTML Elements Correctly

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3.9 Resolve Render Blocking Content

Web Development

3.10 Provide Code-Based Way-Finding Mechanisms

Web Development

3.11 Validate Form Errors and External Input

Web Development

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