Discover eco-design to reduce carbon footprint

This guide is for you because you have chosen (or will choose) Infomaniak as host. This choice is not trivial. You are ecologically sensitive and want to do everything possible to reduce the carbon footprint on the Internet.

Infomaniak thanks you already for choosing this hoster who cares about the planet and explore the tracks below to advance in the eco-design of your web environment.

Why do you act?

Websites use energy to operate, and the use of the Internet is one of the main causes of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to the fact that it is important to choose an ethical hosting provider that uses renewable energy sources to feed its servers You can also help reduce these emissions by adopting eco-responsible practices in the design and management of your Mail sites and services.

How can we act?

As seen above, Infomaniak acts on various points up to its support department itself: it will accompany you in the choice of services tailored to your needs with a view to preserving the environment, will collect your feedbacks allowing us to optimize our practices and inspire your experiences, while communicating environmental issues in the hosting sector to adopt good digital practices.

At your level, there are several ways to reduce your carbon footprint on the Internet:

Minimizing energy consumption

To reduce the energy consumption of servers and users' computers: optimize images, use web fonts, use minified scripts and data compression technologies. Sleek designs can help reduce bandwidth requirements.

Offer options to reduce data consumption by using lower quality images or by offering streaming videos with different qualities, to disable trackers and ads that consume a lot of data.

For good practices dedicated to WordPress consult the GreenIT cards.

Using eco-responsible technologies

Sustainable development technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, are more environmentally friendly.‍

Promoting sustainability

Make users aware of the environmental impact of Internet technologies and encourage them to adopt eco-responsible practices. Including with the WordPress solution.

What about messaging?

The same reflexes can be made regarding your communication by e-mail:

• Use an eco-responsible signature that invites recipients to reduce their environmental impact by using eco-responsible technologies or adopting eco-responsible practices...
• Use eco-responsible e-mail management tools that use renewable energy sources and have eco-responsible energy consumption policies...
• Using e-mails in plain text rather than HTML e-mails, as HTML e-mails tend to consume more energy to be displayed...
• Use attachments in PDF format rather than heavier formats...
• Use unsubscribe features to avoid sending unwanted emails...
• Use tracking tools to find out how many people open your e-mails and so know if you're sending too many or not enough...

All these actions can be carried out gradually and must be adapted to the situation of each website, there is no single solution.

Monitor energy consumption statistics regularly to continue to improve the ecological performance of the site. Infomaniak will offer in the future tools in this direction but in the meantime you can use https://greenframe.io.