Website Carbon Footprint Calculator
Calculate the massive environmental impact your sluggish, un-optimized website has. Find out how many trees your web server burns through every year.
Total Annual CO2 Emissions
The Internet is a Massive Global Polluter
It is easy to think of the internet as an invisible "cloud" that has no physical impact. In reality, the global IT industry accounts for over 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions. That is roughly equivalent to the entire global airline industry.
Why Are Websites Bad for the Planet?
Every time a user loads your website, three massive energy drains happen simultaneously:
- The Data Center (your Web Host) must burn electricity to wake up the server hardware and execute code.
- The Telecom Networks must burn electricity to physically route the gigabytes of data through undersea cables and 5G cell towers.
- The User's Device must burn battery power to process and render complex Javascript and enormous videos on their screen.
How to Create a "Green" Website
The fastest way to reduce your digital carbon footprint is to migrate your website to a Green Web Host. Providers like GreenGeeks, SiteGround, and Google Cloud commit to purchasing 100% renewable wind and solar energy to offset their massive server farms.
The second fastest way is to simply optimize your images. A 6 MB uncompressed background photo on your homepage downloaded by 10,000 visitors physically requires burning coal to transmit 60 Gigabytes of completely unnecessary data across the world.