05 / HOSTING & LIFECYCLE
Hosting & lifecycle
The service continues to consume resources after delivery.
05. Think beyond the page.
- Review hosting providers’ published energy and environmental information rather than relying on a green label.
- Use caching appropriately and review data retention, obsolete content and unused services.
- Document what was measured, the method and the limitations before claiming environmental savings.
Standards & resources
These references inform the approach. They are not certifications or claims that every criterion has been audited on this site.
- RGESN: ecodesign of digital services, a framework for examining the service throughout its lifecycle.
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2, testable accessibility requirements.
- Core Web Vitals, user-experience performance metrics and thresholds.