Sustainability Best Practices
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  • Introduction
  • Infrastructure
    • Infrastructure Overview
    • Hosting
    • Architecture
    • Security and Bots
  • Backend
    • Backend Overview
    • Upgrades and patches
    • Cache responses
    • Sustainable Design Patterns
    • Performance Testing
    • Common pitfalls
    • SOAP, REST and GraphQL
    • SQL optimization
    • JAMstack
    • Monolithic vs. Service based Architecture
    • Async
    • Background tasks
  • Frontend
    • Frontend Overview
    • Page weight budget
    • Image optimization
    • Asset optimization
    • Limit use of 3rd parties
    • Lazyload resources
    • Mobile first
  • Editor
    • Editor Overview
    • Content Types
    • Content Optimization
    • Design Choices
    • Data Management
    • Housekeeping
  • Telemetry
    • Telemetry Overview
    • February 2024
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  • Are you an Editor? - You can also do a lot for the environment
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Introduction

Here you can find the Sustainability Best Practices listed by the Umbraco Sustainability Community Team.

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As a global society, we should be making an effort to . These changes are needed to keep global temperature increases below 1.5°C compared to pre-industrialised times. According to , the temperature will likely be breached in 2023. This will have additional impacts on the warming weather pattern, for example, more extreme weather events driven by El Niño.

The severe disruption to society will also extend to businesses with physical and digital infrastructure suffering damage, affecting employee’s ability to work.

The , above NGOs, governments, and media. Therefore, businesses need to live up to that trust on issues like climate and ecological emergencies.

Digital industry organizations have a part to play in meeting the challenge of reducing emissions:

  • .

  • Since the Paris Agreement, the .

  • This is worsening because more people are consuming heavier-weight software; .

Given the above, this documentation describes some of the best practices that can be applied when developing digital experiences. The recommendations are given by a group of Umbraco Community members in .

Read our best practice guide for developers

We have decided to target our best practices to specific roles. As a result, we have grouped the documentation into four categories: Infrastructure, Backend, Frontend, and Editor. You can dive into one of the categories that interests you the most.

Are you an Editor? - You can also do a lot for the environment

Telemetry Data

be on track with the necessary changes
the studies
2023 Edelman Trust Barometer found that business is the most trusted institution
The emissions caused by the digital industry are equivalent to the airline industry
average web page size has increased by 64% on desktop and 132% on mobile
internet users have increased by 60%, while internet traffic has increased by 440%
the Sustainability Team
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Read about some basic considerations for a sustainable infrastructure.

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Learn about the common pitfalls and much more.

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Learn about how you can optimise assets, implement a mobile-first strategy and other suggestions.

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Take a look at our sustainability guide for editors

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Take a look at the insights received from the collected detailed telemetry.

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