5 Ways to Make Your Website Environment or Eco-Friendly

The Internet uses enormous amounts of energy - a Google search, reportedly requires enough energy to boil a cup of water. However, the Internet is slowly but surely "Going Green". The problem is that it means different things to different people. In most ways to lighten your website's environmental footprint are found, it becomes increasingly difficult to choose the combination of steps that are appropriate for your business.

There are many reasons to green your site. They range from cheap to moral. Since not all energy is renewable and clean, we all have an obligation to go a little greener.

Here are 5 of the most common and effective ways to make your website green.

This is biggest step you can take to green your site. Web hosting servers uses immense amounts of energy to keep them running 24x7X365. As this industry growing, many web hosting company are clamoring to establish themselves as green web hosting providers.

The purchase of Green Hosting will be similarly to planting several acres of trees or removing several cars from the road for one year.

Green web hosting comapny typically involves several of the following things:

1. Their server directly powered by renewable energy.
2. They subscribe to environmentally friendly practices.
3. They optimize their server for energy efficiency.
4. Energy use offset using a carbon credit.
5. Energy use offset using a Renewable Energy Credit. (REC).

After these things, companies can do extra for saving environment. But these 5 are the most common steps for any web hosting company take to “go green.”

Still not find a good Environmently Friendly Web Host then definitetly visit Eco Host Reviews, they review many Eco friendly web hosts which provided eco friendly services.

Colors :-

According to Blackle if Google choose black background then save 2,129,020.089 Watt hours energy saved. Then why not Google choose black background for helping environment.

Computer monitors use energy to display colors. Old CRT monitor consumes more energy for display light colors like White (which explain by Blackle). But new age LCD monitors consumes more energy for showing dark colors like Black that why Google not change its background because uses of LCD monitors increase rapidly.

So, if you want save enivironment then uses light color background for your website like White.

Images :-

Images increases website loading time & it's well known that the loading time of websites has a major influence on the overall user experience.
The market researcher, in fact, confirming that the users will just skip a site altogether if it doesn't load within 4 seconds That means image optimization not only save environment but also make your site more user friendly.

How to Optimize Your Website Images ?

The images can create an additional burden for the size of your pages, especially if you forget to optimize them. Photoshop and other image editing software includes a feature called "Save for Web." Always use this function, it will reduce the image size and loading time significantly.

You can also use online image optimizer Online Image Optimizer

The first step is to obtain a green certification from CO2Stats.com. Second step is offsetting your web site's energy usage completely . This is mostly negate your environmental impact, although it is important to distinguish between offset emissions of carbon and are not at all.

Once you sign up with CO2stats.com, you will get a small code snippet to insert into your Site. That snippet will automatically monitor and neutralize the all carbon footprint of your site -- not just the servers, but the visitors' computers (when they visit your website) and the networks that connect them & this site code works with all hosts without any problem.

Online Leaf :-

If any visitor visit your website then your website continuously eliminates green house gases (also in standby mode) but Online Leaf easily solve this problem with the help of short script code. If you want make your website eco-friendly definitetly visit this site.

Also check The 350 Challenge

If your Web page is the colored background or use colored fonts, Printer-friendly page would be black text on a white background. Many people use  black and white printers and colored backgrounds can use a lot of ink.

Add "Print" option button or facility on your webpage for printing your website contents & follow these steps for creating printer friendly version of your webpage.

1. White background with Black text.
2. Font size should be 12 px.
3. Change font face to Serif.
4. Remove all unnecessary images.
5. Remove mostly or all advetising.
6. Remove all Java script, Flash & Animated images.
7. Include your website original url then cutomer or visitor can easily find your web address & visit again your website ( This is also good for advertising )
8. Inculde also a copyright notification.

Also visit 10 Minutes to Printer Friendly Pages

The site loads faster, less energy will be used for execution of the request so design websites that are low in images & design because simple images and design or layouts loading more quickly & saving energy for the end user.

Many ways to speed up your website

1. Image Formatting (see "Green Tips for Your Website Design" part of this hub )
2. If you uses Wordpress then visit Speed up WordPress & make your Wordpress blog or site more eco friendly.
3. Less animation & flash.

Easy Navigation :-

Each time a web page loads that uses energy. So the least number of clicks required to find the information that your visitors looking for, simply less clicks makes your website more eco friendly. Provide clear navigation, a site map and / or a search box will help your visitors to access the information they want quickly and thus save energy.

 All these steps not only make your website eco friendly but also user friendly, more exposure, save time & money also.

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