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The environmental case for website performance
The harmful environmental impact of our digital activities is growing, and it's growing fast. What's the link between a faster website and climate change? You might be surprised.
Fershad Irani
Web Sustainability & Performance Consultant
Hey, I'm Fershad. I help environmentally conscious companies ensure their websites are fast, optimised for performance, and have a low carbon impact.
Why does website sustainability matter?What I do
I work with companies that want to improve their website's performance, meet Core Web Vitals, and have a lower environmental impact. Through sustainability-focused audits and consulting services I help assess, identify, and fix website sustainability and performance issues.
I also ...
Write
Write on my blog my blog and publish Optimised, a fortnightly email newsletter about web performance.
I've also written content for Sustain.Life - a platform that guides companies looking to adopt more sustainable operations.
Teach
Teach people with a non-technical background how to apply performance and sustainability practices to their own websites.
I have no upcoming public workshops, but you can hire me to help your team.
Feature
Writing
I write every so often on my blog about topics relating to digital sustainability and performance. You can also find case studies featuring some of the optimisation and performance work I've done for clients.
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Stress testing site performance
As developers, we're normally building and testing websites on devices with decent specs, so testing how your site performs over a slow network or on a low-powered device is one way to help ensure real world performance.
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Quick Performance Audit - Taiwan COVID Vaccination Website
Taiwan's COVID-19 vaccination website is integral to the government's vaccine rollout plans. This post is a quick website performance audit of the site.
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Proxying AWS S3 content with Cloudflare Workers
Using resources hosted by a third-party can seriously hurt website performance in a few ways. In this post, we'll cover how you can use a proxy to reduce the performance impact when hosting content in AWS S3 bucket.