Calculate carbon emissions of websites, web applications & digital services
Foundation
- Energy consumption of network communication
- Page Weight
- Maximum carbon per web page should be 1 gram
- Carbon Rating of Websites
Websites as black boxes
Estimate carbon emissions of websites based on data transfer
Measurements during website development
Measure actual power usage of websites
Measure power usage of website frontend features within a web browser
Measure website performance
Performance is related to energy efficiency. So you can also use the results of a performance analysis to get better in terms of energy efficiency.
Check footprint of frontend technologies
Bundlephobia
Find the cost of adding a npm package to your bundle.
Website: https://bundlephobia.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/pastelsky/bundlephobia
Browser Extension: https://github.com/vicrazumov/js-bundle-size
Are my third parties green?
Tool that checks the third-party resources used by a website.
Build by Fershad Irani. It uses Google Lighthouse in the background.
Measure server-side applications
βMeasure energy consumption of server-side applications and cloud-based systems
Estimate carbon emissions in cloud environments
β Estimate carbon emissions of cloud applications
External accreditations for eco-friendly websites
Integrate estimations into your application
May be useful to enable Carbon-Aware Computing.
CO2.js JavaScript library
climatiq REST API
βclimatiq
Data Sources
Reference and guide: data sources for calculating digital emissions - The Green Web Foundation (written and maintained by Fershad Irani and Hannah Smith)
Including Scope 3 Emissions
Accounting of GHG Emissions from Digital Services & Companies