From Guest Blogger Jenny Richards: Guidelines for Eco-Friendly Techniques of Web Development

Nowadays, just with the help of few clicks we can acquire a lot of data or knowledge on anything. Internet has already become a part and parcel of our life. But the time has come when we should sit back and think a bit about our environment. It has been found out from company reviews and research that every single website that is being surfed generally emits 20 milligrams of Carbon dioxide every time. Now let us go through some green techniques that can be used for web development purposes.

Measuring Carbon Footprint: The carbon footprints of the web pages are to be measured regularly. According to the environmental research done by a Harvard University physicist Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, it is very clear that a website with images, videos and animations can produce 300 mg of CO2.As millions of people are using internet every hour for every day, the carbon emissions contribute to the 2% international emission each year. Therefore a simple analysis can be done according to the speed of your connection so that the graphic files can be built shorter in all the web pages.

Measurement Tool: Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross has invented an environmental calculator for measuring this carbon footprint. With the help of CO2Stats the bloggers and the web designers can create a green website on their own. This tool automatically monitors and eventually neutralizes the bad effects of the carbon footprint from the websites.CO2Stats make your site more energy efficient and always helps to reduce the loading time of different pages of your site.

Initiatives for Green Web: You can encourage your work environment with this green web initiative. As a responsible web developer, you may also offer your clients CO2 Neutral websites. You can financially register with the CO2 Neutral and can be certified as an environment-friendly web page owner.

Black Color Palette: There was a lot of controversy regarding the use of black color in the web page. But later it was proved that using this color will help in saving energy. While the page is in standby mode, the black color can be used with a standby message written over the dark portion. So the users need not worry surfing different pages at the same time.

Eco-Friendly Colors: EMERGY-C offers you with different low wattage and eco friendly color palettes. It ensures to consume just 3 to 4 watts of more energy than a page totally black in color. Some of the color codes may be #000000 for black, #3d414c for cobalt #822007 for rusty red and lots more.

Renewable Hosting: Web hosting can be 100% renewable in nature. When you are creating a website or upgrading it for rebranding purpose, it will always be a wise decision to use renewable energy. The web hosting companies are gradually using the solar-powered renewable energies to make use of their servers.

Removing Unused Files By Tools: The unused files need to be removed by the tools. There are tools like Mac SiteCleaner, WebsiteCleaner etc which cleans out unnecessary metadata, files and characters.

Golden Rules: You need to set aside some golden rules while building the website. The graphic size should not exceed 20 kb. The use of images, graphics and multimedia which covers 50% of the webpage needs to be optimized properly by the designers.

Therefore you need to reduce the carbon footprint of the web pages very efficiently so that they do not cause any harm to the environment. You can compress and combine larger files to smaller ones. You can also merge the images with the help of CSS. Thus few of your conscious efforts can provide a green computing world to all of us.

Author Bio: Jenny Richards is a well known web developer who is interested in making an eco-friendly web world. She is studying all the company reviews and doing a research for environment-friendly techniques that can be used for web designing.