Lesson 16Tools to check your website sustainability score
- Notion 97 - How to calculate a website’s carbon footprint
- Notion 98 - How to determine whether a website uses a green web host
- Notion 99 - Can you evaluate the carbon footprint and hosting sustainability of a website yourself?
- Notion 100 - How to check for other web sustainability metrics
- Notion 101 - Can you evaluate other sustainability metrics of a website yourself?
Notion 99
Can you evaluate the carbon footprint and hosting sustainability of a website yourself?
Target skills
Familiarise yourself with automated testing tools to evaluate the carbon footprint and hosting sustainability of your website examples.
Exercise
We've provided you with a list of tools for assessing two web sustainability metrics: a website’s carbon footprint and the sustainability of its web hosting provider. Now let's see how these solutions work in practice.
Pick two websites and assess their carbon impact and web hosting sustainability.
Resources
Use any of the automated testing tools mentioned in grains 97 and 98 for determining a website’s carbon footprint and its hosting provider's sustainability.
Our personal favourites are:
Digital Beacon: https://digitalbeacon.co/
The Green Web Foundation: http://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org
Correction
How did your websites measure up? Ask yourself the following questions to determine the successful implementation of those two sustainability metrics:
- Do your websites produce fewer than 1 gr of CO2 upon first visiting them? If not, which elements do you think can be removed to reduce their carbon footprint?
- How many trees does each website need to plant annually to offset its impact on the environment?
- Which alternative activities consume the same amount of energy as it takes to run the websites?
- Do your website examples use a green hosting provider? If not, can you provide a suggestion on which green hosting provider they could use for sustainable hosting?