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Legibility (the ability to distinguish letters/characters) and readability (the flow of reading) are important properties of a good web font. However, just like any other file, web fonts must be downloaded in order to be displayed correctly. The environmental impact of a non-system font in the form of greenhouse gas emissions is comparable to that of a small picture . That's why we usually recommend our customers limit themselves to up to 2 web fonts for their sustainable website. You can optimize most web fonts by compressing them . Tip: If your website runs on WordPress and you don't plan to use emotes, you can disable the emotes and their scripts in.
Here you can find a code template to disable emotes in WordPress. This means that users HK Phone Number do not have to connect to a third-party server (such as Google) and we can control the compression of the font very precisely. Please note that Adobe fonts are not suitable for this approach. If you want to go even further and completely negate the impact of your website's fonts on the climate, you can limit yourself to system fonts such as Arial and Times New Roman. 8. Use rel='preconnect' You can use the Preconnect attribute to load specific files at the same time that would normally be loaded separately one after the other. make browsing more energy efficient and ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Read more about it in our Core Web Vitals guide . 9. Implement a caching strategy Web caching is about storing website data so that future retrieval of the data can be faster. According to Daniel & Daniel (2012), web caching was developed for two main reasons: to reduce the load on web servers and to improve the user experience of Internet users while surfing. A sustainable web caching strategy must consider the following: The frequency of content updates and the importance of content updates. The duration of caching must be decided on a case-by-case basis , depending on the type of content. Long caching duration is better for the climate, but in some cases it can be completely misleading.
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