ECOCONCEPTION - ABConservation

Our commitment to eco-design

Our website is eco-designed. It's not just a word, it's a commitment.

The aim: to reduce the environmental footprint of our digital services while providing a good experience for our users.

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We go from

F to C

on EcoIndex with a score rising from 11 to 69 out of 100¹

We have reduced

78%

the number of requests per page from 144 to 31¹

We have reduced

89%

reduced page size from 6.1 MB to 0.67 MB¹

(page complexity has been reduced by 83% from 2938 to 499 elements)¹)

¹ Via EcoIndex, comparison between the old website and the current website on the 5 most visited pages in 2024. [results updated: 21/01/2025]

Why an eco-designed website?

The digital sector is responsible for between 3 and 4% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. In France, these amount to 2.5%, and could increase by 60% by 2040 if nothing is done to reduce them, according to the pre-report of the Senate's Information Mission on the environmental footprint of the digital sector, quoted by the Arcep.

Our eco-designed website takes into account the environmental impacts of its operation. It is developed with the aim of minimizing its environmental footprint while offering an optimal user experience. An eco-designed site must be useful, fast and easy to use.

How?

We have designed our website to respond to environmental, social and economic issues:

An eco-designed site because it's lightweight, both in terms of functionality and data, requiring less energy to run and to use
An eco-designed site accessible to as many people as possible
An eco-designed site to promote the binturong, present the activities of the ABConservation association and advertise our educational and job offers.

Our approach

As far as possible, we strive to respect 115 ecodesign best practices.

1 - Offer simple, frugal and relevant content

It's essential to understand that upstream design work has a far greater impact than the meticulous optimization of lines of code.

As part of our commitment to digital sobriety, ne have made a special effort to offer you :

simple content by intelligently dividing the website into pages dedicated to a single objective.
pages limited in media (images, photos, videos, elimination of carousels, etc.) and adapted to the size of hardware screens (mobile, tablet, desktop). We limit page size to less than 1 MB.
content limited to what you have come to find on the site.
useful, quickly accessible content.

2 - Use a lightweight graphic charter

The design of the ABConservation website has been conceived with the reduction of consumption in mind: airy, uncluttered, using only 2 fonts, ...

3 - Use links rather than hosting duplicate resources

We prefer to offer content already hosted elsewhere without duplicating it or hosting it on our servers. So you'll find links to our posts on the social networks Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook or to our podcasts broadcast on Spotify and Deezer.

4 - Optimizing front and back

Our site uses the "WordPress" CMS associated with the minimalist and light "Hello Elementor" theme. We have chosen to rigorously select less than 10 extensions and to dispense with the use of cookies. Our aim: to limit the weight of data transferred, the complexity of web pages and the number of HTTP requests sent to servers.

5 - Raising the ABConservation team's awareness

The ABConservation team has been aware of the ecodesign approach and these new uses since 11/06/2024 through workshops dedicated to this subject, and to the design and maintenance of this website.

Ecodesign declaration (RGESN)

We carried out our self-diagnosis according to the general reference framework for the eco-design of digital services (RGESN).

Our score is 74%.