Maximum carbon per web page should be 1 gram

By:: Eco-Friendly Web Alliance
Source:: Eco-Friendly Web Alliance β€” for a cleaner greener internet

Einzelne Webseiten sollten maximal fΓΌr 1 Gramm CO2-Emissionen verantwortlich sein.

Warum diese Zahl?

The choice of 1g and not 2g or 0.5g, for example, was made after considering the balance between feasibility and impact. A target of 1g is challenging enough to drive significant reductions in carbon emissions, but also achievable for most websites. If the target were set too high, where it may feel it is too restrictive and won’t accommodate functionality integral to business purpose of a website, look and feel, or branding. If it is not achievable for many websites, it could discourage progress. Conversely, if the target were set too low, it might not drive enough change to have a meaningful impact on reducing the carbon footprint of the internet. So far 1 g of CO2e seems a good threshold as vast majority of webpages we have tested are around 1.75 to 2g per page. We continue to analyse the data from the website we test and perhaps in the future we may reach out to you to see if 0.75 g of CO2e should be the recommended limit.

Eco-Friendly Web Alliance is using the standardised public methodology that incorporates CO2.js library from The Green Web Foundation for their carbon emissions calculation.