WordPress sustainability check
How sustainable is my website? – WordPress sustainability check
Are you a sustainable entrepreneur or organization? Then you’ll naturally want to know how sustainable your WordPress website is. After all, websites can consume a lot of energy. How eco-friendly is your site? What’s already going well, and what could be improved? After completing the sustainability check, you’ll receive tips you can implement right away.
Why is a sustainable website important?
As a green entrepreneur or organization, you naturally take your carbon emissions into account. However, the impact of a website is sometimes overlooked, which is a shame. Issues such as non-green hosting, unnecessary plugins, and unoptimized images often lead to significant additional energy consumption and CO2 emissions without you even realizing it. Turn your words into action and reduce your ecological footprint by making your website more sustainable with sustainable web design.
An energy-efficient website is, by definition, a fast website. Because it consumes less energy, the pages load faster. Web pages that load quickly are also found more quickly in search engines such as Google and Ecosia.
What is a WordPress sustainability check?
During this review, I’ll go over the following aspects of your website:
- Hosting: Do you use green hosting, and how sustainable is your hosting provider?
- Website size: How large is your WordPress database?
- Pages and posts: How large are they, and how much CO2 do they generate? I estimate this using recognized tools.
- Themes, plugins, and media library: I check to see if there are any unnecessary or unused items and how much CO2 they generate
- Images: Are they optimized?
- Videos: Are they hosted on the site itself, or are they hosted on an external platform? And how sustainable is that?
- Code: Is unnecessary code being generated?
- Design: Are there elements that contribute to higher CO2 emissions, such as sliders?
- Outdated content: Are there outdated pages and articles on both the front end and back end of the website?
How does the sustainability check for WordPress websites work?
This process is entirely digital, from request to delivery. It’s a quick process; here’s how it works:
1. Request: Contact me
2. Quote and terms and conditions: Review these and let me know if you approve them
3. What I need from you: Access to your WordPress backend
4. Sustainability check: I’ll get started for you
5. Delivery: You’ll receive a sustainability report that you can use to get started right away
What is in the sustainability report?
Here’s what you’ll find in the overview:
- How Green Is Your host?
- Average CO2 emissions per page and blog post
- The average file size per page and blog post
- The size of your WordPress database
- Feedback on your theme, builder, and plugins
- Insights into your media library
- Whether your images are already properly optimized
- If you use videos: what the environmental impact is
- A critical look at your code: Are any unnecessary scripts being loaded?
- Feedback on the sustainability of your design
- Whether there is any outdated content that you can remove
You’ll also get tips on how to make your website more sustainable, and you can get started right away.
Would you rather have an experienced sustainable web designer handle the process of making your website more sustainable? I can do that for you, too. Read here all about my website support service.
How much does the sustainability check cost?
That costs € 70 per website. This includes reviewing 5 pages and 3 blog posts. Do you have a larger website, such as one with an online store or a booking system? In that case, I can charge an additional fee of €60 per hour.
How much time do you need for a sustainability check?
As soon as I receive your WordPress backend login credentials, I’ll get started on your project. You’ll receive the sustainability report within two weeks. It may be ready sooner or later, depending on the complexity of the site.
Frequently asked questions about the sustainability check
1. How sustainable is my WordPress website?
That depends on a number of factors, such as hosting, web design, plugins, themes, and much more. The sustainability check will answer these questions for you.
2. Why is green hosting so important?
Because this is truly the foundation of a sustainable website. You can optimize images, but as long as your server runs on “gray” energy from lignite mines, fossil fuels still account for a significant portion of your energy use. Green hosting ensures that your website runs on energy from sustainable sources, such as wind or solar power.
3. Do you also use AI for your sustainability check?
No, I do the verification and reporting manually.
4. In which languages do you conduct the sustainability check?
I can do this in Dutch, English, and French. Dutch is my native language (C2), and English and French are my working languages (C1).
5. I want to make my website more sustainable. Can you help me with that?
Of course. For more information, check out my website support service.