Web Sustainability Guidelines: Getting Started

The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) are a W3C community draft report first published on October 10th, 2023.

The current version is quite extensive with 92 guidelines, each of which includes success criteria, info on the benefits of each guideline, help for compliance reporting, an example and/or links to resources.

So where to begin? Consider starting with these 0 guidelines that have the highest impact and lowest or medium effort in the categories:


User Experience Design


Web Development


Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems


Business Strategy And Product Management


Source: Web Sustainability Guidelines JSON API