Impact.
Morgan Murrah
From the first day I knew of the Web Sustainability Guidelines I knew that there would always be a push to understand what the impact will be. Why should we do this? Tell us more.
Yesterday, The Web Sustainability Guidelines took a major step towards this approach with the world community of people who may be interested in its works:
Impact Measurement
The ratings and timeframes support prioritisation of guidelines based on expected impact and when that impact is likely to occur across people, planet, and prosperity.
Improving ways to measure and track the guidelines
These numbers will help implementors crunch things or make qualitative comparisons and contrasts.
My implementation: WSG-o-matic
I followed some simple steps.
I found the impact.json file in the Repository of the WSGs.
I added it and some relatively minor adjustments to code for my project, so that the Impact Statement loads when a guideline is loaded with the app. Try it yourself if you like:
WSG-o-matic
This now shows impact ratings when you load a random guideline. Note, not all guidelines have an impact measurement at this time.
It continues to be a tiny website, and caching works well with this website to minimize times the JSON is downloaded over the wire.
The JSON is right in the official repository, for you to use if you like.