Building the Sustainable Web: How to Create Web Products That Respect People and the Planet

The web has become one of the most influential systems shaping our lives.It connects billions of people every day, yet this convenience carries an impact we rarely see.The energy used to design, build, host, and use digital products affects both people and the planet, even though most of that impact is invisible, widely distributed, and easy to underestimate. Your website or application may only represent a small fraction of the total, but the scale of the web means that every improvement matters. And even if sustainability is not your first motivation, the same decisions that lower environmental impact usually improve performance, accessibility, user trust, and long term maintainability.Better for people, better for organisations, better for the planet. Building the Sustainable Web takes you through the entire digital stack and shows where impact happens, why it matters, and how to make meaningful progress.From infrastructure choices and backend architecture to frontend performance, U