Yesterday at #WCEU, I had a brief conversation on contributing to open source as a company. I referred to #sustainability as an approach to doing business which embeds but also goes beyond the environmental aspects of the term.

Let me try and connect a few dots… 🧵 What do topics like sustainability, accessibility, progressive enhancement, ethics, diversity, and data privacy have in common?

1️⃣ Tech people talk about them a lot (at least in my neck of the web).
2️⃣ Few companies incorporate them well *as a whole*.

Why is that?

Friendly reminder for everyone that network payload a.k.a. page size is *the* most impactful metric on your Lighthouse report.

Because of page size, a child in the U.S. – or anywhere – may have to choose between eating lunch or doing homework.

Here is why… 🧵 (thread)

https://twitter.com/scottjehl/status/1357720523069865986

The median website in 2020 weighs 2.4MB.

This translates into 20¢ per page load on a cheap U.S. pre-paid plan. Cheap – that’s a best case scenario.

Btw, does it surprise you that countries like U.S., Switzerland, Ireland, or Canada lead that cost graph?
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