When building a sustainable website choosing the platform to build the site with accounts for a major part of it’s sustainably. Here is a list of web builders that should be avoided and why…
WordPress
Wix
Shopify
Squarespace
GoDaddy
& basically any mainstream (do it yourself) builders
But why should you avoid using these platforms to increase a websites sustainability?
1. Majority of the main stream web builders WordPress in particular have a very large code base, most small to – medium static websites built using the above web builders only utilize about 40-50% of the code base yet the other 60% has to still be pulled, this results in a waste of resources and increases loading times.
2. Many of the hosting deals that come with the above web builders do not use green hosting to power the websites, green hosting is one of the largest factors in making a website more sustainable.
3. Older cms builders like WordPress & Wix.com use outdated tech stacks causing the sites often to have poor performance and accessibility ratings.
So what method should you use when building a sustainable website? By far for best results you should focus on using modern tech stacks that use a minimal framework and take advantage of CDN, but this can be very expensive…
The second solution is a platform called Webflow, by nature Webflow has a minimal cod-base and is very well optimized, often boasting high performance and efficiency. They also use green hosting!
