Mightybytes is a digital agency based at 1725 West Balmoral Avenue in Chicago. It was founded in 1998 by Tim Frick, who leads it as founder and president, and it has been a certified B Corp since 2011, one of the first in its trade. It is also certified by the NGLCC as an LGBT Business Enterprise. Its stated mission is to make the web more accessible, sustainable and better for everyone.
The agency works largely for nonprofits, foundations, universities and mission-driven companies, and it holds itself to the standards it sells. Everything it ships meets WCAG 2.2 level AA by default, and it follows the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines, which members of its team co-authored. Its core values are listed as sustainable, accessible, educational, responsible and measurable.
What Mightybytes does
- Strategy and innovation: digital strategy for organizations with a mission.
- Experience design: research, UX and interface design.
- Product development: websites and digital products, built to be accessible and efficient.
- Marketing: what it calls responsible marketing optimization.
- Accessibility services: making sites and products usable by everyone, to WCAG 2.2 level AA.
- Sustainability services: reducing the environmental footprint of digital products.
How it works
Mightybytes treats accessibility and sustainability as defaults rather than options. Its deliverables target WCAG 2.2 level AA, and its design and development work follows the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines. The agency uses its own homepage as evidence of that approach and publishes its performance figures there:
| Homepage metric | Figure published |
|---|---|
| Page size | 305 kb |
| Page load time | 504ms |
| Digital carbon rating | A |
| Ecograder score | 98, better than 95% of URLs crawled |
Credentials and recognition
- Certified B Corp since 2011.
- NGLCC certified LGBT Business Enterprise.
- Team members co-authored the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines.
- A rating of 4.75 out of 5 stars on Clutch, according to its site.
- Coverage in the BBC, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, Crain's Chicago Business, Fast Company, Forbes, Sustainable Brands, Triple Pundit and Wired, as listed on its site.
Team
The agency's site names several members of the team alongside Tim Frick, including senior web developers, a digital project manager, a senior strategist for digital and sustainability, a digital marketing manager and an operations manager who also serves as benefit director.
Clients
Among the clients Mightybytes names:
- Feeding America
- Alliance for the Great Lakes
- Chicago Community Trust
- Northwestern University
- Access Living
- Arts Alliance Illinois
- B Lab
- Disability & Philanthropy Forum
- Rails to Trails
- School of Rock
- KeHE
- Pearson
- Rubicon
Frequently asked questions
When was Mightybytes founded, and by whom? In 1998, by Tim Frick, who remains its founder and president.
Where is the agency based? At 1725 West Balmoral Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Is Mightybytes a B Corp? Yes. It has been a certified B Corp since 2011, and it is also an NGLCC certified LGBT Business Enterprise.
What accessibility standard does it work to? Its deliverables meet WCAG 2.2 level AA by default.
How does it approach sustainable web design? It follows the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines, which its team helped write, and publishes its own homepage's weight, load time and carbon rating as a reference.
Who does it work with? Nonprofits, foundations, universities and mission-driven companies, from Feeding America and the Chicago Community Trust to Northwestern University.
Contact
- Website: mightybytes.com
- About the agency: mightybytes.com/about
- Address: 1725 West Balmoral Ave., Chicago, IL 60640, United States