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World Congress 2023 • Aug 11, 2023

Reducing the carbon footprint of your website

Ines Akrap

Did you know the internet generates 4% of global carbon emissions? Learn how developers use co2.js and payload reduction to build a faster, greener web.

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#1 about 3 min

Calculating the carbon footprint of static websites

The internet accounts for a significant percentage of global carbon emissions due to the electricity required by interconnected devices.

#2 about 3 min

The intersection of web performance and sustainability

Optimizing web performance directly reduces a website's carbon footprint by minimizing unused data transfer.

#3 about 2 min

Measuring website carbon emissions directly with WebPageTest

Auditing tools can effectively estimate baseline carbon emissions and check the green hosting status of a specific site.

#4 about 3 min

The sustainable web design carbon calculation model

Combining the energy profile of network infrastructure with grid carbon intensity accurately estimates output.

#5 about 1 min

Implementing CO2 measurements using the CO2.js library

The open-source CO2.js library provides consistent carbon calculations across different development tools.

#6 about 2 min

Analyzing full page weight and lazy loading

Adopting lazy loading delays data transfer until necessary, significantly lowering the initial payload of heavy web pages.

#7 about 2 min

Validating green hosting and clean energy usage

Choosing hosting providers powered by renewable energy offsets drastically limits the backend infrastructure emissions of web applications.

#8 about 3 min

Reducing bloated source code and excessive fonts

Removing unused code and subsetting font files limits unnecessary network requests and restrains heavy file sizes.

#9 about 2 min

Optimizing hero components and website image assets

Resizing images precisely to containers using modern compression formats drastically lightens visually heavy UI components.

#10 about 2 min

Deferring video players with import on interaction

Mocking video embeds and widgets with static images before user interaction prevents heavy third-party code execution.

#11 about 2 min

Leveraging community resources for sustainable web design

Integrating standards from foundations and W3C guidelines helps frontend teams implement systematic code sustainability strategies.

#12 about 5 min

Addressing rendering caching and CPU usage impacts

Technical implementation choices like server-side rendering and edge caching ultimately alter the hardware efficiency footprint.

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