Energy Efficient Website Best Practices 2025

This may seem like a very different topic to you or its words may seem different to you but it is very important for you to know about it, what is Energy Efficiency and what happens due to it. Basically you know that people in every industry are trying to save electricity and the IT industry is also doing the same.

If I try to explain it to you in simple words, like you created a website and if there is a lot of useless code in it and the images size is also big, then in that case your website will take a lot of time to load and you will also use a lot of electricity. You might not have understood what is the meaning of electricity. Its meaning is that the website is connected to the server and the server runs on electricity, so in that case, when there is more load, the server uses more power, let's understand step by step.

You must be using high quality images on your website or anywhere else but it does not mean that their size will always be high. If you use webp, AVIF formats, the quality of your images will remain correct and the size will also be small. This will make our website eco-friendly. If you want to compress the image, you can use many different tools. But along with this, when you use images on your website, lazy loading, which is an attribute of html, is an advantage. If you use it, then it has this advantage that when a user visits your website, the images do not load until the website is scrolled. This is the advantage of green web development. it's a part.

This point I want to tell you is that when you are building your website, try to use less code but there can be some problem in this because the code can be too much, so for this you can keep in mind that you build the code using a lightweight framework like tailwind, bootstrap etc. It is quite fast and lightweight too which will keep your code correct, this will make the server load quickly and energy will also be less and this is also a great benefit for you, this will keep your website fast and smooth and the user will get more benefit, the visibility of your website will increase.

When you buy a hosting, you have to take care of a lot of things but the most important among them is that you use a green hosting provider like GreenGeeks, Hostinger (Green program), Google Cloud (carbon neutral). In my opinion, Hostinger is the best. It keeps its hosting eco-friendly. It is very strong in this regard. The backend of all of these is also sustainable. Before you buy any hosting, first see what is the energy source of the company and then buy it.

You have to enable caching in your browser, this will delete your unnecessary data, you can also use CDN like Netflix etc, this will mean that if the server is nearby then energy will be consumed less, if I tell you in simple words like if you walk 1km to office and then your office comes near your home, then how much energy will you save, this is what it means.

6. Reduce Animations and Heavy Scripts

This point is very important and important as a developer, if you put useless animations on any random website so that you think that your website will look good, then this is not the case at all, you are doing something wrong, this uses a lot of server energy and website loading also becomes slow, along with this many people add meaningless scripts to their website, that also causes this problem and you will have two losses in this, one server will go down, due to which more energy will be used to increase the speed of the website, along with that the website will not load properly, many people also put videos of large size on the website which are of no use if it doesn't happen then this too has to be avoided.

First of all, keep the layout of your website simple and good, without any excessive animation which increases the loading and puts more load on the server, then keep its design responsive so that it loads easily on mobile devices because a website without responsiveness creates loading problems and do not use AMP page at all, you can do something but limited AMP page means there are many different things like slider, top to scroll etc. which you will have to avoid.

There is only one meaning of this, if you have time, then regularly test the speed of your website. You can use Google Lighthouse. In this, you have to keep in mind that your website is not using too much energy. And if you cannot check daily, then you can do it weekly. This is also a good option. And all the details are available in Google Lighthouse.

Lastly, I would like to tell you that do not look at energy-efficiency only as a matter of your benefit, it is very beneficial for our eco-system, and it is also for your benefit, and soon in 2025, it can become a big ranking factor for sustainability, so you just have to create the website correctly and also take care of your environment, this is our life.

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