Expanded Sites - October 12, 2011
New to Green-Internet is an inclusion of websites that are green in ways other than kilobytes. A lot of individuals have given considerable effort to promote a sustainable environment, and it is appropriate that we give those individuals the recognition that they deserve.
One of the most green things a person can do is to choose a lifestyle that is vegan or vegetarian. It is not too terribly difficult to become a vegetarian, but sometimes it seems to be almost impossible to become a vegan in our modern world. Simply finding a pair of quality shoes that are not made of animal products is a challenge in itself. Plastic shoes are relatively common, but rarely are they comfortable, and the plastic itself is never green.
Soaps are one of the several items that we use in our daily lives, and it is now not difficult to find vegan and vegetarian soaps. River Soap Company is a green site that offers vegan and vegetarian soaps. River Soaps are not only cruelty free and environmentally conscious, the soaps are also quite excellent in aroma and for moisturizing.
Dial-up Internet Access - October 12, 2011
It appears that many websites continue to be aimed at the relatively few individuals with the highest speed cable Internet access. Even at 2mbps many sites now take half a minute or longer to load, which means that individuals using dial-up would have to wait almost 25 minutes to load the same page. One reported web page is over 60 megs in weight, and the site is apparently only aimed at visitors who can afford the most expensive Internet access.
When designing your website take into consideration who you want to attract. Do you want visitors from rural areas where there is no cable or DSL? Do you want visitors who may not use the Internet much and thus may only use dial-up? Is your site so special that a visitor with dial-up will want to wait half an hour for one page to load?
One of the most pleasurable things on the Internet is to click on a page and watch it load almost instantly. By keeping your website lightweight you will not only please your visitors, you will also be doing the green thing.
Excessive Ads - October 12, 2011
One of the reasons why some websites are so slow to load is because the sites have a large number of advertisements. It appears that it has become common for most of the advertisements to be linked from the advertisers, which simply means that each individual ad must be downloaded from different servers. The higher the number of servers, the more likely it is for one of the servers to be busy and for your page to load slowly.
It is best to use few or no ads, and if possible have the ads load from the same hosting server that your website is on.
It is not uncommon for visitors to not click on any ads, and for most websites it is a waste of time and bandwidth to include ads. Too, many Internet users are now so tired of seeing ads that most of the individuals will simply click back out of a site when too many ads are seen.
Whether humorous or sad, some websites that promote themselves as being experts in their trade will also have Google© ads on their sites. How professional can the business be if the company is hoping to earn an extra two dollars a month from ad commissions? Little degrades a website faster than having too many advertisements.
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