Wired.com
See the below carbon footprint created from Wired users loading the Wired.com homepage, and the methods to reduce this website's pressure on server emissions from user load rates.
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* The value of Wired offsets is estimated per million users, with an expected 50% reduction in user load rate server emissions, costed at the market rate of $7.87 per ton (see methodology summary)
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How bad can website carbon footprints be, versus the average?
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For comparision, certain websites have load rates that are in some cases more than 78% higher than the average website homepage user load rate of 8.3mb, and that counts to way larger server C02e emissions.
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What key factors reduce your website C02e emissions, and overall carbon footprint?
Image Sizing
Image compression, sizing and filetypes can vary emissions extensively, and if not managed then images can cause enormous load rate emissions
Eco Hosting
Without realising it, your hosting is more than likely not using renewable energy sources, and as such your website is powered potentially solely by fossil fuels
Lean Code
Heavy codesets are a route cause to a lot of unnecessary load rates, and as such these can spiral your digital emissions if left unmanaged
Third Party Tracking
Website tracking codes are a hidden aspect of website load rates that cause an undue amount of serious third party emissions, and therefore need managed improvements via CDMs
Recommended Tools
Here are some tools to extensively allow you to reduce digital C02e emissions
Image Compression
Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Website Frameworks
Content Mannagement Systems (CMS)
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Digital Carbon Offsets
Here are our recommended carbon offset providers, should you wish to offset your remaining digital C02e emissions
Green Web Hosting
Here are a range of hosting providers that are run from renewables
Enterprise
Wordpress
Virtual Private Servers
Top Questions
Your top digital carbon footprint questions answered:
We work with a large array of tools, consultants, and developers to perform reductions in your website emissions. For some websites - it is merely a few basic changes to reduce website load times and therefore emissions, but for others it can mean entirely replatforming what they have, sadly.
It is best to start by utilising both lab based and in-field online tools that can analyse your website for speed and performance. From there you will be able to understand what is needed to your reduce website load times and therefore website emissions. It is always best to consult with an expert on this.
We have a wide number of voluntary and paid roles to assist Green Clicks in measuring, and tackling online emissions from the largest emitters online. Get in touch to find out more.
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