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  • Governance

    • 0.1 Documented Policy
    • 0.2 Essential Tracking and Ads
  • UX / Design

    • 1.2 Rich Content
    • 1.3 Use of Images
    • 1.4 Awareness
    • 1.5 Data Transfer and Emissions
    • 1.6 Carbon Aware Design
    • 1.7 Colour Scheme
    • 1.8 User Retention
  • Images

    • 2.1 File Formats
    • 2.2 Image Optimisation
    • 2.3 Image Resolution
    • 2.4 Browser Cropping
  • Video

    • 3.1 Autoplay
    • 3.2 Script Loading
    • 3.3 Streaming Resolution
  • Content

    • 4.1 Content Audit
    • 4.2 Digital First
    • 4.3 Easy Access
    • 4.4 Descriptive Headings
  • Fonts

    • 5.1 Font Variations
    • 5.2 File Formats
    • 5.3 Clean Files
    • 5.4 System Fonts
  • Web Development

    • 6.1 Lazy Loading Images
    • 6.3 Modular Design
    • 6.4 Minification
    • 6.5 Templates
    • 6.6 Asset Loading
    • 6.7 Analytics
    • 6.8 Data Minimisation
    • 6.9 Stylesheet
    • 6.10 Text Compression
    • 6.11 Carbon Aware Development
  • Development Operations

    • 7.1 Bad Robots
    • 7.2 Dev Environments
    • 7.3 Dataset
    • 7.4 Site Architecture
    • 7.5 Caching
    • 7.6 Pipeline Code
    • 7.8 Green Hosting

3.1 Autoplay

Do not autoplay videos.

Easy to implement
13
High impact score

Autoplay is bad UX as the user hasn’t indicated they want to watch it. It is also a waste of data transfer.

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