How to Build a Low-tech Website by Low-tech Magazine
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How Wikimedia helped mobile web readers save on data by Wikimedia Foundation
1. For normal browsers, wrap the image inside a noscript tag and appended a placeholder element with all the information needed to render the image via JavaScript.
2. Default typeface, no logo.
3. For the older browsers, It is able to inject a small amount of JavaScript that replaces the placeholder with the original image tag, copying across all the necessary attributes.
4. Use dithered images to make it less resource images.
5. Build a static site, which is generated once and exists as a simple set of documents instead of generating the website on demand.
6. Use renewable energy to power the site, like solar energy.
7. Use less javascript.
8. Write less messy code. Make the code more clean and streamlined.
9. Use less images
10. If using images, compress them. Use the save for web in the photoshop and change them into 72dpi/92dpi.
11. No third party tracking, No cookies, No Advertising Services
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