CO2 Emissions
Discover how eco-friendly your website is with our CO2 calculator!
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Achieving sustainability is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century, and while it is typically associated with planes, cars, industrial machinery, or plastics, websites also play a role in it. According to Gitnux, digital technologies generate 4% of greenhouse gas emissions – global email usage only generates as much pollution as 7 million cars.
Every interaction between your website and the users uses up a small portion of electricity, thus generating carbon dioxide (bots also count in!).
The heavier and more complex the website, the higher your digital carbon footprint, as it uses up more energy to process data.
The size of your host’s data centers, the technology, and the infrastructure used all add up to your digital carbon footprint, but also to the water usage, as water is used to cool down the servers.
Did our carbon footprint calculator show high emissions? Here’s why you should change that:
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