Better understand the impact of encouraging users to only import the things they are using

[36degrees]

What

Look at the impact of users only importing the things that are being used through the lens of:

• web performance
• sustainability (carbon cost of data transfer and device processing)
• financial (e.g. bandwidth costs)

Try and estimate how those benefits might scale across GOV.UK.

Why

To help us understand the potential impact of these changes when we're talking about this work.

To help us understand how much to invest in this type of work in the future.

Who needs to know about this

TBC

Done when

TBC

[36degrees]

Think this work needs a bit of scoping when we start it – perhaps we could run a mini kick off to decide what we want to look at?

https://sustainablewebdesign.org/calculating-digital-emissions/ might be a useful resource when we come to look at the sustainability / environmental impact.

[36degrees]

We didn't end up doing this as part of the cycle, but we did put out an informal request as part of the release comms for folks to get in touch and let us know what gains they got.

I'm going to close this as I think it's unlikely we'll revisit it anytime soon.