Any designers/developers using Webflow and attempting to make your sites more environmentally responsible?
The past couple of months I've been diving deep into ways to make my websites less carbon heavy. UX and design play a large role in this, but hosting green is clearly important.
I use Webflow for myself and in freelance projects and love it. But without green hosting options, the sites tend to do really poorly here https://www.websitecarbon.comor
For my own static site, I'm hosting it on GitHub and using Cloudflare which works well. But for sites that need a CMS to be updated often, I'm struggling to find a good solution. I'm considering trying out Udesly to move things over to WordPress, but not sure if this is the right solution either.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Also happy to share any solutions I found/things I learn along the way.
Grateful for your time : )
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- @Benedict Povey Yes! It is so annoying! It seems such an oversight on their part to not offer a green hosting option at the minimum.I'll keep you in the loop of anything I find.
- @Chris Butterworth thanks for sharing that, I'll certainly check the Beacon tool out.I've had a look at Flowty before and thought it seemed really promising. Last I looked it was still in closed testing, saying it was going to have a fee to use, but it now says it's an abandoned project and free. A few weeks ago Webflow banned a tool I was trying out on a personal site called Stacket which wasn't made for lowering emissions but pulled changes (including content changes) from a Webflow site into GitHub automatically. I assumed Flowty was trying to do the same but with the specific purpose of helping people lower emissions of the sites. Looks like it's not going to be much use now for clients who need to be able to update the content themselves.It feels like there should be a solution, but that solution may be that I need to start straying away from Webflow. It feels like they'll have allow for green hosting if they're going to be competitive in website building in an ever-warming world.Thanks for your time and thoughts on this, I really appreciate it!
- I have the same problem with Webflow. I find it so annoying that you can build a whole site and not be able to choose your hosting. Sorry I have no adivce but would love to know if you find a solution
- digitalbeacon.co (shameless plug) gives you more information to use but not sure whether Webflow would allow some of the changes to be implemented.If you're wedded to Webflow take a look at Flowty (https://flowty.site/) which exports the site and makes it static with optimised assets to lower its emissions - you've have to rebuild the site with every content edit.Could also look at Netlify CMS, which I use on my personal and work websites - which can then be hosted anywhere as they'd be static sites.If you have more questions, reach out.
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