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Sustainable Web Interest Group

The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) cover a wide range of recommendations to make web products and services more sustainable. These guidelines use planetary, people, and prosperity principles (the PPP approach) throughout the decision-making process, allowing users to minimize their environmental impact in various ways. These include user-centered design, performant web development, carbon-free infrastructure, sustainable business strategy, and, supported by measurability data, various combinations thereof. It should be noted that these guidelines will not address every possible mechanism or strategy to become more sustainable. These guidelines, which are notably web-focused, should be seen as the starting point of a sustainability journey that may ultimately cover other areas beyond the current scope, for example manufacturing or shipping of physical products. Following these guidelines will often make web content and services more accessible, usable, performant, and secure as a by-product.